1st lieutenant Joseph J. Clinch, to be captain, 31st | May, 1817, vice Bell, resigned. 1st lieutenant Thomas Blackston, to be captain,) 31st May, 1817, vice Bailey, dismissed. 1st lieutenant Jacob Tipton, to be captain, 1st June, 1817, vice Mallory, resigned. 2d lieutenant Benjamin R. Christian, to be 1st lieutenant, 30th April. 1817, vice Bee, jr. promoted. 2d lieutenant Charles Betts, to be 1st lieutenant, 31st May, 1817, vice Clinch, promoted. 2d lieutenant Daniel E. Burch, to be 1st lieutenant, 7th June, 1817. EIGHTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. William G. M'Neill, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. Angus W. M'Donald, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. Henry Berryman, to be 3d liutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. Constantine M. Eakin, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. John D. Orr, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. Ethan A. Hitchcock, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. John M Washington, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. 1st lieutenant Thomas Wright, to be captain, 25th September, 1817, vice Mountjoy, resigned. 2d lieutenant Nathaniel Young, to be 1st lieuten-artillery, 18th August, 1817. ant, 26th June, 1817, vice Hopkins, deceased. Matthew A. Patrick, to be 3d lieutenant corps of 20 lie en int Samuel Riddle, to be 1st lieutenant, 13th August, 1817, vice Whistler, dropped. 2d lieutenant, John Maul, to be 1st lieutenant, 20th August, 1817, vice Guy, resigned. Jeremiah Yancey, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 18th August, 1817. Wilson Whartley, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 4th September, 1817. B. Favrot, to be 2d lieutenant 1st infantry, 8th May, 1817. William Kerr, to be 2d lieutenant 1st infantry, 2d Lieutenant Farly Eddy, to be 1st lieutenant, 12th September, 1817, vice Stephens, dropped. 2d Beutenant Richard B. Mason, to be 1st lieu-14th August, 1817. tenant, 25th September, 1817, vice Wright, promoted. RIFLE REGIMENT. 1st lieutenant Joseph Calhoun, jr. to be captain, 31st March, 1817, vice Kean, resigned. 1st lieutenant James H. Ballard, to be captain, 22d April, 1817, vice Shipp, deceased. 2d lieutenant James S. Gray, to be 1st lieutenant, 31st March. 1817, vice Calhoun, promoted. Robert B. Harney, to be 2d lieutenant 1st infantry, 18th August, 1817. Richard Douglass, to be 2d lieutenant 2d infantry, 14th July, 1817. Michael F. Vandeventer, to be 2d lieutenant 2d infantry, 22 July, 1817. George W. Stall, to be 2d lieutenant 3d infantry, 4th September, 1817. William F. Taylor, to be 2d lieutenant 4th infan 2d lieutenant Thomas F. Smith, to be 1st lieutry, 18th August, 1817. tenant, 22d April, 1817, více Ballard, promoted. 2d lieutenant Thomas F. Hunt, to be 1st lieuten an, 1st July, 1817, vice Hamilton, resigned. M H. Elliot, to be surgeon, 4th infantry, 31st October, 1817. Ephraim K. Barnum, to be 2d lieutenant, 11tb 2d lieutenant William S. Blair, to be 1st lieu-June, 1817, 5th infantry. tenant, 15th July, 1817, vice Harrison, dropped. 24 lieutenant Horace Broughton, to be 1st lieutenant, 31st July, 1817, vice Hollingsworth, resigned. APPOINTMENTS. John Biddle, to be assistant inspector general, 19th June, 1817. Samuel S. Stacey, to be 2d lieutenant, 22d July, 1817, 5th infantry. Richard H. Ashley, to be 2d lieutenant, 30th July, 1817, 5th infantry. Henry Green, to be surgeon's mate 5th infantry, 22d July, 1817. Zalmon C. Palmer, to be 2d lieutenant 6th infan Willian Baker, to be post surgeon, 20th June,try, 16th June, 1817. 1817. Clajon Reiley, to be hospital surgeon's mate, 31st October, 1817. S. C. Muir, to be hospital surgeon's mate, 31st October, 1817, Simeon Knight, to be battalion paymaster, 16th May, 1817. Daniel E. Burch, to be 2d lieutenant 7th infantry, 15th June, 1817, promoted. John B. Hogan, to be paymaster 7th infantry, 25th September, 1817. Farly Eddy, to be 2d lieutenant 8th infantry, 11th August, 1817, promoted. Richard B. Mason, to be 2d lieutenant 8th infan James Spencer, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artil-try, 2d September, 1817, promoted. lery, 17th July, 1817, promoted. Arthur Nelson, to be surgeon's mate, 31st Octo Isaac A. Adams to be 3d lieutenant corps of artil-ber, 1817. lery, 17th July, 1817, promoted. William G. Shade, to be 2d lieutenant rifle régi Wm. M. Graham, to be 3d lieutenant corps of ar-ment, 22d May, 1817. tillery, 17th July, 1817, promoted. John Gantt to 2d lieutenant rifle regiment, 24th Jas. D. Graham, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artil-May, 1817. lery, 17th July, 1817, promoted Charles Despinville, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817, promoted. John C. Kirk, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artil Jery, 17th July, 1817. Gabriel Field, to be 2d lieutenant rifle regiment, 24th May, 1817. John Clark, to be 2d lieutenant rifle regiment, 20th June, 1817. Charles Pentland, to be 2d lieutenant rifle regi John R. Vinton, to 3d lieutenant corps of artilment, 9th October, 1817, lery, 17th July, 1817. Richard B. Lee, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artilJery, 17th July, 1817. Frederick L. Griffith to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. Edward I. Lambert, to be 3d lieutenant corps of artillery, 17th July, 1817. By order, D. PARKER. Adj. and ins. gen. NOTE. It is believed vacancies exist which may alter the dates of some promotions when the casualies are officially reported. When the academic staff do not otherwise recommend the rank of cades, promoted on the same day, it is settled by the date of warrant. Naval Affairs. FROM THE NIAGARA JOURNAL. The following has been handed to us for publication, as the result of the proceedings of the court-martial recently held at Erie, Pa. for the trial of capt. D. S. Dexter, naval commander on this station, on charges preferred against him by lieut. Wish. NAVY DEPARTMENT, ' SIB-I transmit to you herewith, a copy of the sentence of the general court-martial, convened at Erie, Pa. for your trial, upon charges preferred by lieut Wish, It is highly satisfactory to the navy department, that an officer of your rank and meritorious services, should be honorably acquitted upon charges seriously affecting your character, by the unani mous decision of a respectable court. You will immediately resume the command of the naval station at Erie. I am, very respectfully, your obd❜t servant. Capt. DANIEL S. Dexter, Sentence of a general court-martial, convened at the house of John Dixon, in the borough of Erie, state of Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, 1817, agreeably to an adjournment from the U. S. brig Niagara, lying in the said harbor, for the trial of Daniel S. Dexter, esquire, a master commandant in the navy of the U. States, on charges and specifications of charges exhibited against him, by John A. Wish, esq. a lieutenant in the navy. Sept. 16, 1817, 9 o'clock, A. M. The court met agreeably to adjournment, the president, members and acting judge advocate all present, capt, Dexter having delivered and read his defence, the court pronounced the following sen tence. The court, after maturely deliberating on the testimony in support of the charges and specifications of charges preferred against D. S. Dexter, master commandant, U. States Navy, by lieut. Wish, unanimously acquit him, in a full and honora. ble manner; it not appearing to said court that any censure should attach to his conduct as commanding officer. The court unanimously concur in opinion, that the good of the service requires the removal of certain officers, who united by factious feelings, have endeavored to destroy the character of their commander by such steps as are calculated to bring odium on the service, and to produce insubordination, 'tis highly important should be discountenanced. The court feel the necessity of recommending this measure from the bad footing on which these officers appear to be with the citizens of Erie, when it was their duty to have cultivated a good and friendly understanding, and to have taken no steps whereby social intercourse could have been destroyed. The court, viewing in a most odious light anonymous and secret communications, made to destroy the character and reputation of a man, and considering the authors of such as cowardly calumniators, cannot but feel a solemn regret that an officer and applicant for the command of the sta. tion, should have perused such a communication against his commander, containing the basest libels, without making known to that officer that he had seen such communications, and warned him against the insidious attack of an assassin. The court New York Battery. DEPARTMENT OF WAR, SIR-I am directed by the President to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you addressed to him on the 9th inst. in relation to a subject which has unfortunately given rise to an unpleasant controversy between the corporation of New York and the general officer commanding the troops of the United States in that department. Had it been known to the President that the erecting of buildings on the main land ceded to the United States, adjoining the battery at New-York, was contrary to the wishes of the corporation of that city, he would not have authorized the erection of them, and he deeply regrets that he was not apprized of the fact before the corporation undertook to direct their street commissioner to perform an act incompatible, as he thinks, with the cession of soil made by the corporation of New York, and that of jurisdiction made by the state to the United States. Whether the United States have or have not a right to erect buildings of the description contemplated by the commanding general, on the ground ceded to them by the corporation of New York, is a question on which, as you justly observe, the judicial authority is, perhaps, alone competent to decide. Until such decision, the President deems it improper to perform any act which may be considered a relinquishment of the right. With this reservation, he does not hesitate, in a spirit of ac commodation, to yield to the wishes of the corpora. tion and the citizens of New York. I have the pleasure, therefore, to inform you that orders have been given to prevent the erection of the buildings in question, and to remove the materials. I have the honor to be, with great consideration South America. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. The gentleman who has been polite enough to hand to us for publication the exposition of president Pueyrredon, prefaces it with the following remarks: “PUEYRREDON has been much praised and condemned by some among us. The public mind has been illy informed, either as to his individual character, or that of the government, at the head of which he has been placed. Much, however, may be fairly deduced from this address. It shews that the government has as accomplished men and as fine talents at its command, as that of any other civilized nation on earth. It shows what prodigious difficulties the new. government has had to surmount, and with what variety of factions and violence it has been opposed. It gives us to understand, that equality and ease of taxation; that public credit; that the dissemination of information, by the establishment of public colleges and schools; ment. that the training the militia and arming the people; agonies, towards the close of 1815. The few re and, what is curious, that the enthusiasm of liberty maining forces, which we had saved from the un has risen to such a pitch, they have, like the Romans happy field of Sinesipe, seemed to be on the point after the battle of Canna, even enlisted and armed of dissolution. The army which had been organiztheir slaves. In short, it altogether evinces, that ed in the province of Cuyo, for the purpose of all the great principles of liberty are already under- marching upon Chili, beheld itself insecure even in stood by the people, and engrafted into the govern-its entrenchments. The enemy, proud of his victories, had already laid his plans to entrammel the "But it is not among the least curious facts of inhabitants of those districts, who were distracted this interesting paper, to observe, that Pueyrredon, by opposite councils, and who dared not indulge a that base tyrant, as he has been called by some hope that through our means, they might be shieldamong us, complains very seriously of the severe ed from the impending dangers. The national trea and unmerited strictures of the press upon his con-sury was not only inadequate to the satisfaction of duct. This is a proof of the existence of liberty; the demands upon it, but even to provide for the for real tyrants never stoop to complain, where most urgent wants. The public spirit of the differis perfectly in their power to subdue and punish. ent provinces had lost sight of the common danger, There was no act of Pueyrredon's which, perhaps, and occupied itself, exclusively, in the visionary has been more imprudent or cruel, or one which projects of seeking liberty in the dissolution of evehas so extensively and materially injured him in the y tie. Discord had taken possession of all hearts, estimation of the world, and of this country in par- expelling every generous and honorable sentiment. ticular, as that of his causing certain of his country. The citizens of the same land displayed their valor men to be transported to the United States. The only in mutual destruction or distrust; assailing act, in itself, shews clearly, that he dared not inflict their best friends and benefactors. Subordinaupon them a more severe punishment; but, by send- tion amongst the military was disregarded by the ing them here, he placed it in their power to make lowest subalterns. The public authorities were known their wrongs and injuries to the whole world, only respected as they gave countenance to crime, with every circumstance of aggravation and high to error, to licentiousness. It grieves me, fellow colouring, which a deep sense of injury and injus- citizens, to speak it, but I must be faithful to truth tice would naturally inspire. The general circula- when I undertake to trace the revolting picture, tion of their story has had a manifest tendency to which our country then exhibited to the conteminjure that very cause of liberty, in which they have plation of the world; the acknowledgement of our been so zealously engaged, and have suffered so errors can bring upon us no disgrace, when made much. The relation of their story has induced with the virtuous resolution of correcting them; many, who were too indolent to reflect or inquire, nor am I the first friend of his country who has to take up an opinion, that nothing like liberty, in publicly deplored our past melancholy situation: fact, did, or perhaps could, exist in their country; pardon me, therefore, if I proceed. Calumny, with and has put into the mouth of the sly enemies of her baleful train, had seated herself in the midst of the rights of man an argument against the patriot us, scattering her poisons through the minds of cause, which they were so anxious to procure. That our most respectable fellow citizens. The capital those persons have been treated, injudiciously, we of the state, which, in the midst of the most trying think there can be no doubt with any one; and we difficulties, had preserved a certain dignity of cha also, for ourselves, feel equally confident in the be-racter, now appeared to be the focus of all the pas. lief, that they have been treated with great injus- sions, which distracted every part of our country. tice and harshness and even cruelty. But partial Fractions of every party were here encountered in evil, human frailty, or individual error, should not a state of the utmost exasperation, while the immibe suffered to warp or to prejudice our feelings and nence of the public dangers served but as the preour judgments, in contemplating the rights and texts for the indulgence of mutual revenge; accusing one another with the origin of the general distresses, and breathing, mutually, the most inju 1 liberties of a whole nation. "It is with infinite regret that we have noticed in some newspapers an intimation, that great commer-rious suspicions. cial advantages are to be demanded and may be ob tained from the new government of our continent, as the price of the recognition of them by this republic. What, Americans barter for liberty! Trade, strike, a bargain, and adjust the price at which they will acknowledge the justice of the cause of those who are struggling to disenthral themselves from the chains of despotism, and are endeavoring to obtain a freedom similar to that which they enjoy! It would be disgraceful! No, we feel confident that no such traffic will be set on foot; it is atterly incompatible with the honor and the dignity of our country; of which, there is no man who entertains a more just and elevated sense, than the present chief magistrate of this nation." Exposition of the proceedings of the supreme govern ment of the United Provinces of South America, during the present administration. Tax evils which had, in succession, since the year 1810, occasioned our calamities, and retarded the progress of our sacred cause, appear to have all conspired to assail us at the same moment, threatening to reduce our political existence to its last The magnanimous people of Buenos Ayres, to whom the praise cannot be denied, of having, impoverished themselves in affording aid to brethren engaged in the same glorious cause, were on the point of experiencing a reaction, whose consequences would have proved radically destrutive to the character and existence of La Plata. Anarchy, in a word, had lighted up a universal conflagration. Nor was this all; when now it might have been supposed that the measure of our afflictions had been full, the troops of Portugal made their appearance on the northern borders of this river, availing themselves of our discords; for these, unhappily unknown to ourselves, had but too well seconded the interests of the neighboring court. New dangers here presented themselves, new occasions to sow discords, and a new impulse was given to the torrent of personal enmities, rendering even loyalty suspicious. It is no easy task, fellow citizens, to draw a just picture of our misadventures, or to enumerate the perils over which your firmness has happily triumphed. You all remember that the evils which thus assailed us, began to diminish at the very moment when we had yielded to despair. The supreme congress, into whose hands the peo due, that the constituted authorities have been supple had confided their safety, had just been bistal- ported in despite of the boldest innovators; to this led at Tucuman. Those who were called upon to am I to attribute the reconciliation of those who be be legislators of their country, and to fix it-fore regarded themselves as having reason to be my destiny, by the wisdom of their councils, were com enemies: to this, to say all in a word, it is due that pelled more than once to exert their courage, and obedience to the lawful authorities, and the love of orto encounter, with intrepidity, the dangers which der, constitute at present the prevailing temper of threatened to profane this last asylum that remain-the provinces over whose destinies I have the honor to ed to our country in its misfortunes. The pru preside as chief magistrate. It were a presumptudence, the integrity, the fortitude of this august ous folly to assert, that this has been established on body, presented to the provinces the delightful foundations that are proof against every attempt; spectacle of an authority which captivated their the present age offers but two many examples of submission, not less by the just title of its elevated how fallible, in these particulars, are all political origin, than by the animated zeal, and the vigorous institutions; but how disgraceful ought we to consienergy which it displayed in the first steps of its der the conduct of those who meditate a repetition of illustrious march. The boldest passions were com- these mournful scenes, in our country: it is proper pelled to renounce their extravagant designs; and to hope, that, in future, restless spirits will be more if in some districts they had the temerity to attempt easily repressed than in the earlier part of the prenew excesses, the celerity with which they were sent administration. Then it was that the extinsuppressed, scarcely allowed time to their authors guishment of anarchy claimed our first attention; yet to sue for mercy. The seditions, notwithstanding, we were by no means free from other assailants, whom still harbored the design of putting vigilance to it was necessary to oppose with our utmost efforts. sleep, in order that they might snatch the opportu- The interior provinces were threatened by the near nity of insulting whatever was most respectable. approach of the enemy, with a more numerous and It was at this crisis that the supreme representa-effective force than they had ever brought into the tion deigned to invest me with the honorable, but field; to concentrate our own was impossible, from awful, distinction of supreme director of the state. the want of means to transport them hundreds of This was not the first time I had been clothed with authority, and that I had already experienced the bitter mortification attendant upon it, was too well known not to regard my acceptance as a sacrifice. At that time a member of the supreme body, I knew well the mass of evils that would weigh up. on nie; but even these, in the midst of anxiety and fears, urged my submission to the supreme will. leagues, and from their already occupying posts from which they could not be spared-Moreover I experienced the most painful embarrassment of mind, when compelled to choose between two extremes equally perilous: to abandon the districts of the interior, and the army which covered them, to the utmost hazard or to desist from the attempt to re-conquer Chili, exposing the province of Cuyo to I had no right to expect that my elevation would subjugation. I at length adopted the course inspir meet the approbation of every one; and the calami-ed by courage, baffling the plans of the enemy's ty of the times caused me to fear that my election generals, La Serma, and Marco. The patriot army, might give rise to new disturbances. The result against which that of Lima was intended to operate, did not disappoint my anticipations. I saw myself was rapidly reinforced, the discipline and subordi compelled to subdue the hearts of my personal ene-nation, which had been lost during the period of mies; but I now considered my person as exclusive- our reverses, were in a short time restored.ly devoted to the public cause. Invested with the Its present strength, respectability, and efficiency chief magistracy, I set off from the bosom of the is known to you, in common with the rest of our supreme congress, for the province of Salta, and fellow-citizens; and more would you have seen, if had the good fortune to compose the loud dissen- the enemy who now flies before us, beaten and humtions which had set at variance the citizens and the bled had not encountered a rampart of loyalty and soldiers; and, having prepared the elements which valour in the province of Salta. afterwards procured for the Saltinians their well The army of Cuyo, far from giving way to that of earned fame, I proceeded to the army, examined Peru, maintained its ground, until regiments were its situation, inspected the fortifications, and, giv-marched from that capital to its reinforcement; ing such orders as the occasion might require, I new regiments were created with a rapidity almost returned to Tucuman, where I had the proud satis. incredible, through the noble devotedness and gefaction of hastening, by my influence, the memora- nerous liberality of that province, in order to acce ble act and solemn declaration of our independence. lerate the final preparations, for setting on foot the I pursued my Journey to the capital of Cordova, stupendous design, which had been formed, of scalwhere, according to previous arrangement, I was ing the Andes; whose successful issue will afford expected by general St. Martin, in order to settle to other nations some means of estimating the rethe plans for rescuing Chili from the power of the spectability of our power, as it has struck terror inSpaniards. From Cordova, with what painful into the minds of our enemies; has kindled gratitude quietude did I stretch my view towards the agitat- in the hearts of our brethern of Chili, and erected ed population of Buenos Ayres! I appeal to you the most splendid monuments of the power and fellow citizens, as the witnesses of the well-founded glory of our country. causes of my fears; and permit me, passing by the The army of this capital was organized at the perils of my transit, to fix your attention on the first same time, with those of the Andes and of the inte days of my arrival in this capital. What violence rior: the regular force has been nearly doubled; the of passions! How many jarring interests! My reso- militia has made great progress in military discipline; lution was taken. I hastened to fulfil the obliga- our stave population has been formed into battalions, tions of my oath. I announced to the people that and taught the military art as far as is consistent the past should be forgotten, that those who dc with their condition. The capital is under no ap served well of their country should be rewarded.prehension, that an army of ten thousand men can Fellow citizens, I have not failed in my promises, shake its liberties, and should the Peninsularians nor shall I ever liave reason to repent me of my send against us thrice that number, ample provision conduct. To this course, and to your virtues, it is has been made to receive them. Our navy has been fostered in all its branches; The people, moreover, have been relieved from the scarcity of means under which we labored un- many burdens, which, being partial or confintil now has not prevented us from undertaking very led to particular classes, had occasioned vexaconsiderable operations, with respect to the nation- tion and disgust. Other vexations, scarcely less al vessels; all of them have been repaired, and grievous, will by degrees be also suppressed, avoidothers have been purchased and armed, for the de- ing as far as possible a recurrence to loans, which fence of our coasts and rivers; provisions have have drawn after them the most fatal consequences been made, should necessity require it, for arming to states. Should we, however, be compelled to remany more, so that the enemy will not find himself sort to such expedients, the lenders will not see secure from our reprisal even upon the ocean. themselves in danger of losing their advances. To Our military force, at every point which it occu- shew these practical results is to make the best repies, seems to be animated by the same spirit: its ply to censure; if it be the intention to do justice tactics are uniform, and have undergone a rapid im to the zeal and intelligence of public officers, the provement from the science and experience which inconveniences and difficulties must be weighed it has borrowed from warlike nations. Our arsenals with the good that has been effected. It is an have been replenished with arms, and a sufficient idle vanity to seek for perfection in the labors of store of cannon and munitions of war has been pro-men. vided to maintain the contest for many years; and One of the mischiefs attendant on the administrathis, after having supplied articles of every descrip- tion of the national treasury, was the existence of tion to those districts which have not as yet come many superfluous offices; with respect to this, the into the union, but whose connection with us has proper reformations have been made, especially in been only intercepted by reason of our past misfor- respect to the armories and public works. The at. tunes. tention of the government is continually alive in Our legions daily receive considerable augmen.this branch of its duties, and it is not without hopes tations from new levies; all our preparations have of being able to see abundance restored, even in been made, as though we were about to enter upon the midst of the unceasing attention required by the contest anew. Until now, the vastness of our war, and of the many undertakings that have been resources were unknown to us, and our enemies may set on foot for the advancement of the general proscontemplate, with deep mortification and despair, perity. the present flourishing state of those provinces af ter so many devastations. The office of major general has been re-established, for the purpose of giving an uniform direction to our armies, in order to fuster the militia in all its details, and to regulate the system of military eco nomy. The general officers, and those of a lower grade, occupied in those duties, will lighten the laBors of the government, at the same time rendering more practical the progress and improvement of which the military force is susceptible, thus forming by degrees a body of expert soldiery, who will at once be an honor to their country, and serve as its firmest pillars in times of danger, Such has been the extension of our southern frontier, over plains and deserts well adapted to the formation of wealthy settlements; a project, whose accomplishment was not within the reach of former governments, in spite of repeated attempts to subdue obstacles which the present administration has had the good fortune to surmount. The unfortu nate inhabitants of our plains have not only been gratuitously supplied with suitable lands, on which to fix their habitations, but have been furnished with the means of cultivating them to advantage. the liberal and exact sciences will be cultivated, in which the hearts of those young men will be formed, who are destined at some future day to add new splendor to our country. Such has been the re-establishment of the college heretofore named San Carlos, but hereafter to be called the Union of the South, as a point designatWhilst thus occupied in providing for our safety ed for the dissemination of learning to the youth within, and preparing for assaults from without, of every part of the state, on the most extensive other objects of solid interest have not been ne-scale; for the attainment of which object the govern. glected, and which hitherto were thought to op- ment is at the present moment engaged in putting pose insurmountable obstacles. in practice every possible diligence. It will not be Our system of finance had hitherto been on a foot-long before these nurseries will flourish, in which ing entirely inadeqate to the unfailing supply of our wants, and still more to the liquidation of the immense debt which had been contracted in former years. An unremitted application to this object has enabled me to create the means of satisfying the creditors of the state, who had already abandoned their debts as lost, as well as to devise a fixed mode, by which the taxes may be made to fall equally and indirectly, on the whole mass of our population; it is not the least merit of this operation, that it has been effected in despite of the writings by which it was attacked and which are but little creditable to the intelligence and good intentions of their authors -The result has been, that their now circulates in This exposition is not made with a view to enhance the hands of the capitalists a sum equivalent in its the value of those services of which our country has value to one million of dollars, which was deficient a right to demand as a debt, but to offer an irrefrabefore the adoption of the measures by which it was gible proof to the people, that prudence and cirproduced. To the same measures are we indebted cumspection are the virtues which are required to for the receipt of two hundred and sixty eight thou-secure the fruits of their heroic efforts. For the sand dollars in the treasury of the custom house, rest, reflecting minds, calculating the labors of the in the short time which has elapsed since my de-government by the immense disparity between the cree of the 29th of March. At no other period present state of our affairs, and what they were fif have the public exigencies been so punctually sup. pired, nor have more important works been under taken. Such has heen the establishment of a military depot on our frontier, with its capacious magazine, a necessary measure to guard us from future dangers, a work which does more honor to the prudent foresight of our country, as it was undertaken in the moment of its prosperous fortunes; a measure which must give more occasion for reflection to our enemies, than they can impose upon us by their boastings. teen months ago, will do justice to the zeal which has effected changes so important. They will no less give credit for many other acts, of a nature to |