Esk, and the commander's name Lennock) | yet captain Lennock immediately inquired for this mulatto lad, whose name on the ship's books is John Robinson; who then, in the presence of the pilot, denied that he wanted his discharge, but alone to obtain a protection.Captain Lennock accordingly wrote a letter to mne, requesting I would call on the recorder and state these facts, and also to mention that if it was required, that the boy should be sent back from Jamaica-with which statement the recorder expressed his satisfaction. It must be well known that since the peace there has been no impressment in the British navy; and it appears this lad was paid off in England, and entered freely on board the Bermuda, from which vessel he was turned over to the Esk." Emigration. The following is communicated by a gentleman of Philadelphia, and may be relied upon for its accuracy-being made up from the manifests of all the passenger-vessels that entered at the custom. house there, from the time to the time stated.— The amount given may, with a small addition, be accepted as the whole number of emigrants who arrived in that port during the year 1817; as in the winter season many do not commonly arrive in the United States. In presenting his thanks to his correspondent for EUROPPOSE These mets AT PHILADELPHIA-DUR- In reply to this it has been published, that the recorder, so far from being satisfied with the explanations of the consul, has prepared a statement of the particulars for the purpose of presenting it to the governor of New York, "whose duty it will be (and we doubt not it will be promptly done) to communicate the France same to the government of the United States." The pilot who conducted the Esk to sea, which he was previously directed by the civil authority not to do, has been dismissed by the board of wardens of that port. Debates in Congress. [DEFERRED ARTICLE.] From whence. Italy English, Irish and Scotch, via. Per- In sons. vessels Wealth of Louisiana. *Most if not all of the persons that arrived by the The editors of the National Intelligencer, way of Holland, were Germans. The Dutch ship for reasons unknown to us, have required that April has arrived in the Delaware since the 1st inst. the editors of certain news-papers should ac- and is not included in the above return, with 550 knowledge the source from whence they derive passengers. Total British subjects 2280. their accounts of the proceedings of congress. We very well know that this requisition does not apply to the Weekly Register; for we have A Milledgeville paper says, that negroes on the repeatedly stated that our abstracts of those sngar estates of Louisiana are worth from 600 to proceedings, &c. were always made from that 1000 dollars yearly; and the sugar crops are worth paper, unless otherwise credited-yet we are close to the city, sells for 5000 dollars the acre; from 20 to 150,000 dollars a year. Sugar land pleased to embrace an opportunity so fairly and no sugar land sell for less than 800 the acre. presented for offering the respectful tribute of Mechanics of all descriptions soon grow rich. Deour approbation to Messrs. Gales and Seaton cent board is from 40 to 60 dollars per month; but for the very great ability and industry with claret is allowed to be used with discretion without which they have performed this important ser- any extra charge; house rent is high, and even nak. vice to their country. It has often happened ed lots on the front street, 60 feet rear, rent for 3 dollars a foot per month. The American popu that the Intelligencer of one day has contained lation is increasing, and already balances the seven or eight columns of the debates, &c. of French in the legislature. That there is a vast field the preceding day. We can well appreciate open for persons fond of public life; the creoles are the excellency of the system and the force of averse to it, and the state pays her officers better the industry needful to accomplish things like than any of her sister states. these. And there is a verbal accuracy in the the supreme court 5000 dollars; inferior judges in "The governor has 7500 dollars a year; judge of speeches reported by them that we hardly ex- the city 4000, and those in the country 1500 and pected: the editor of the Register had the plea-2000; yet these salaries are insignificant when com sure to hear the short speech delivered by Mr. pared to the profits of a cultivated farm." Clay on the second day of this session-and, These amounts appear enormous; yet his memory being tolerably good and the they must be great. If the West-India sugarspeech short, he thought he could have repeat-planters can live by their business, those of ed it nearly word for word and so it was pub-Louisiana must soon grow immensely rich. It lished from the notes taken for the Intelligen- is not understood that our sugar lands are less productive than those of the West-Indies, and 1 90 masters mates 25 boatswains 25 gunners 25 carpenters 20 sail makers 45 boats'ns mates 40 gunner's do. 40 carpenter's do. 15 coxswains 40 stewards >150 Salt-Bounty-Allowances. A statement shewing the amount of duty which accru- Period. 18 coopers Treasury department, Register's office, Dec. 27, 1817. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. Florida Affairs. The injunction of secrecy under which the fil. lowing resolution and laws were passed, having been long since removed by the enacting authori 1,138,504 50y, it is deemed unnecessary that they should be longer withheld from the public eye. They are Nat. Int. now, therefore, published. 510,726 25 Repairs of vessels 25,000 300,000 Ordnance and ordnance stores Repairs of navy yards, and construc tion of docks, &c. 100,000 Contingent expenses 300,000 Burchases of medals and swords 15.000 RESOLUTION. Taking into view the peculiar situation of Spain, and of her American provinces, and considering the influence which the destiny of the territory adjoining the southern border of the United States may have upon their security, tranquility, and commerce-Therefore, Resolved, by th· Senate and House of Reprezentatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. That the United States, under the peculiar circumstances of the existing crisis, cannot, 2,389,230 75 without serious inquietude, see any part of the 1 said territory pass into the hands of any foreign country lying east of the river Perdido, and south power, and that a due regard to their own safety of the state of Georgia and the Mississippi terricompels them to provide, under certain contingen-tory, and for other purposes," and the declaration cies, for the temporary occupation of the said ter- accompanying the same, be not printed or publish. ritory; they at the same time declare that the said ed until the end of the next session of congress, territory shall, in their hands, remain subject to unless directed by the president of the United future negociation. J. B. VARNUM, States, any law or usage to the contrary notwithSpeaker of the House of Representatives. standing. J. B. VARNUM, GEO: CLINTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice-President of the United States, and JOHN POPE, President of the Senate. January 15, 1811-approved, JAMES MADISON. An act to enable the president of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the river Perdido, and south of the state of Georgia and the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes. President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 3, 1811-approved, JAMES MADISON. An act authorizing the president of the United States to take possession of a tract of country lying south of the Mississippi territory, and west of the river Perdido. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of RepreBe it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-sentatives of the United States of America in Congress iatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the president be, and he is hereby assembled, That the president of the United States and hold all that tract of 1 be, and he is hereby authorised to take possession counte West Tda, which lies west of the of, and occupy, all or any part of the territory ly-river Perdido, not now in possession of the United ing east of the river Perdido, and south of the States. bitants thereof under the authority of the United States, the president may employ such parts of the military and naval force of the United States as he may deem necessary. state of Georgia and the Mississippi territory, in Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the case an arrangement has been, or shall be, made purpose of occupying and holding the country with the local authority of the said territory, for aforesaid, and of affording protection to the inhadelivering up the possession of the same, or any part thereof, to the United States, or in the event of an attempt to occupy the said territory, or any part thereof, by any foreign government; and he may for the purpose of taking possession, and occupying, the territory aforesaid, and in order to maintain therein the authority of the United States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United States, which he may deem necessary. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the necessary expenses, twenty thousand dollars are hereby appropriated,to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be applied to the purposes aforesaid, under Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That one hundred the direction of the president. thousand dollars be appropriated for defraying] such expenses as the president may deem necessary for obtaining possession as aforesaid, and the H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. security of the said territory, to be applied under February 12, 1813-approved, JAMES MADISON the direction of the president, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Laws of the United States. AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE INTERNAL DUTIES. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That in case possession of the territory aforesaid shall be obtained by the United States, as aforesaid, that until other Be it enacted by the senate and house of representaprovision be made by congress, the president be, tives of the United States of America in congress asand he is hereby, authorized to establish, within sembled, That from and after the thirty first day of the territory aforesaid, a temporary government, December one thousand eight hundred and sevenand the military, civil, and judicial powers thereof teen, the internal duties on licenses to distillers, on shall be vested in such person and persons, and be refined sugars, licenses to retailers, sales at auction, exercised in such manner, as he may direct, for carriages for the conveyance of persons, and stampthe protection and maintainance of the inhabitants ed vellum, parchment and paper, shall be dis of the said territory in the full enjoyment of their continued; and all acts and parts of acts rela liberty, property, and religion. J. B. VARNUM, tive thereto, shall, from and after the said thirty Speaker of the House of Representatives. first day of December, be repealed; Provided, That GEO: CLINTON, for the recovery, remission and receipt of such duVice-President of the United States, and ties as have accrued, and on the day aforesaid rePresident of the Senate. main outstanding, and for the payment of drawbacks January 15, 1811-approved, JAMES MADISON. or allowances on the exportation of any of the said spirits or sugars legally entitled thereto, provided An act concerning an act to enable the president of the exportation be effected previous to the first the United States, under certain contingencies, day of January, one thousand eight hundred and to take possession of the country lying east of the nineteen, and for the recovery and distribution of river Perdido, and south of the state of Georgia fines, penalties and forfeitures and the remission and the Mississippi territory, and for other pur-thereof which shall have been incurred before and poses, and the declaration accompanying the on the said thirty first day of December, the provisions of the aforesaid acts shall remain in full force and virtue. same. Le it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, and the act passed during the present session of congress, entitled "an act to enable the president of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the offices of the collectors of the internal duties and direct tax, shall continue in each collection district, respectively, until the collection of the duties abovementioned, and of the direct tax, shall have been riage, or license to distil or retail, so much of the sums so paid or secured as shall be proportioned to the part of the term which may remain unexpired, shall be refunded or remitted: Provided, That all duties on sales at auction effected, and on refined sugar removed, previously to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, shall be paid in the same manner as if this act had not been passed. completed in such district, and no longer, unless (extending beyond the said thirty-first of December, sooner discontinued by the president of the United shall be allowed a deduction from the duties paid States, who shall be, and is hereby empowered, or secured by them, proportionate to the part of whenever the collection of the said duties and tax their term which may remain unexpired on the said shall have been so far completed in any district as thirty-first of December, and the several banks or to render, in his opinion, that measure expedient, bankers which may have agreed to make the annual to discontinue any of the said collectors, and to composition of one and a half per centum on their unite, into one collection district, any two or more dividends, in lieu of the stamp duty on the notes collection districts, lying and being in the same issued by them, shall pay only at the rate of one state; in which case, the collectors thereafter em- and a half per centum per annum, on such diviployed in the collection of the said duties and tax dends for the portion of a year that shall remain in such state or district, shall be appointed and re- from the time of the last annual payment to the said movable by the president alone: and for the promot- thirty-first of December, to be estimated upon the ing of the collection of any of the abovementioned dividend or dividends that have been or shall be duties or tax, which may be outstanding, after the declared and made by such bank or bankers resaid thirty first day of December, the president of spectively, within a year from the time of such last the United States shall be, and he hereby is, em-annual payment, and in all cases in which payments powered, at any time thereafter, to make such al-shall have been made, or duties secured, for a term lowance as he may think we pup xtending beyond the said thirty-first of December, commissions now allowed) law, to any of the colon account of any certificates for the use of a car. lectors of the said duties and tax, and the same from time to time to vary; Provided, that the whole of such additional allowances shall not in the aggre. gate, exceed five per centum on the amount of the duties and tax paid into the treasury after that day, and that the extraordinary allowances authorized on the second and fourth sections of the act passed March third, one thousand eight hundred and fif teen entitled, "An act to fix the compensation and increase the responsibility of the collectors of the di- Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all per rect tax and internal duties, and for other purposes sons who shall, on or after the said thirty-first of connected with the collection thereof," shall, after | December, have any blank vellum, parchment, or the said 31st day of December, cease: and the office paper, which has been stamped, and on which a of commissioner of the revenue shall cease, and be duty has been paid to the use of government, shall discontinued, whenever the collection of the duties be entitled to receive from the collector of the and tax abovementioned shall be completed, unless district to whom it may be delivered, or from such sooner discontinued by the president of the United other revenue officer in the respective states or States, who shall be, and hereby is, empowered, districts as may be designated for that purpose by whenever the collection of the said duties and tax the secretary of the treasury, the value of the said shall have been so far completed, as, in his opinion, stamps, after deducting, in all cases, seven and a to render that measure expedient, to discontinue half per centum, and the said officers are hereby the said office; in which case the immediate super-authorized to pay the same; Provided, the said blank intendence and collection of such parts of the said vellum, parchment or paper, be presented within duties and taxes as may then remain outstanding, four months after the said thirty-first of Decem. shall be placed in such office of the treasury de-ber. partment as the secretary, for the time being, may Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That on all designate: Provided however, That all bonds, notes, or other instruments, which have been charged with the payment of a duty; and which shall, any time prior to the said thirty first day of December, have been written or printed on vellum, parchment or paper, not stamped or marked according to law, or upon vellum, parchment or paper, not stamped Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in case a or marked at a lower rate of duty than is required collector shall not have in his hands a sufficient by law for such bond, note, or other instrument, sum out of which to refund the sums authorized to may be presented to any collector of the internal be refunded by this act, or to defray the expenrevenue, or collector of the customs within the state ses incident to the collection of the outstanding and where there [is] no collector, to the marshal of duties and direct tax, such repayments and expenthe district, whose duty it shall be, upon the pay-ses shall be made and defrayed out of any money ment of the duty with which such instrument was in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. chargeable, together with the additional sum of ten Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if, on the dollars: for which duty and additional sum, the settlement of the accounts of any collector relative said collector or marshal shall be accountable to to the direct tax and internal duties, balances shall the treasury of the United States; to endorse upon be found due to and from him on the different acsome part of such instrument his receipt for the counts, they may be adjusted, so as to ascertain the same; and thereupon the said bond, note, or other final balances, and if this be in favor of the collecinstrument, shall be, to all intents and purposes, as tor, it shall be paid out of any money in the treasur valid and available to the person holding the same, ry not otherwise appropriated. as if it had been or were stamped, or marked, as Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the fifth by law required-any thing in any act to the contra-section of the act passed the third day of March, ry notwithstanding. one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entided Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all per- "An act to fix the compensation and increase the sons who shall obtain licenses for stills or boilers, responsibility of the collectors of the direct tax or for selling by retail, or certificates for carriages and internal duties, and for other purposes connect¬ sums that be refunded in virtue of this act, as well as all sums received after the thirty first day of De cember aforesaid, and before notice of this act, the collectors shall be allowed a commission of six per centum, to be charged by them in settling their accounts with the treasury department. cit indulgence for such imperfections as may occur. An exemption from error, it were presumption to expect; but whatever can be effected by an ardent attachment to our republican institutions, by a zesl in the performance of duty, strengthened by those solemn sanctions which you have just witnessed, and from an entire devotion of my best abilities and untiring industry to the public welfare, I may confidently promise. With the exertion of these, aided by your wisdom, patriotism and friendly dis positions, a kind Providence, I humbly trust, will continue to dispense to our beloved country, those blessings, by which it has hitherto been so pre. eminently distinguished. The following is the substance of a letter from the secretary of the treasury, shewing "the outI cannot but felicitate myself, when I reflect on standing loan office certificates, army certificates the auspiciousness of the period, at which the task and indents of interest that appear on the books of of administering these duties has been assigned to the treasury-accompanying a bill reported in me. I am cheered by the recollection, that I shall the house of representatives to authorize the have stives of the United be example of my distinpayment of certain war office certificates." Loan office certificates, signed by the treasurer of loans, and countersigned by the respective loan officers"--whole amount $100,576 42 "Final settlement certificates issued by guished predecessor, who has filled the chair of state for the constitutional term, with signal fidelity and success.--Through a period of uncommon national difficulty and embarrassment, terminating, at length, in war, this state has fulfilled her duty to the nation, free from the influence of sectional prejudice and local jealousy, while in her interior 3,992 30 the march of improvement has been both steady and rapid. In the mean time, the general government has been so wisely conducted, as to have advanced the interests, and eminently secured the and abroad, and its character respected by all na plies furnished" in the several states 15,530 22 confidence of its citizens. It is at peace at home "Certificates issued by army contractors to officers and privates of the revolutionary army Indents of interest, estimated amount outstanding 38,414 52 500 00 159,013 56 The average period of interest on the several certificates forming the foregoing aggregate amount, may be estimated at thirty five years, or from the 1st of January 1782: and it may be remarked, that the application for payment, from individual holders, at the treasury, of late years, have been so few, that it is conjectured a very small proportion, compared with the whole amount, would ever be claimed at the treasury. tions. These results furnish new proofs of the efficiency of a republican government.-Founded on the popular will, and administered by the agents of the people's choice, it has ceased to be a matter of experiment, but has proved itself competest to the demands of peace, and the exigencies of war, to the preservation of the general weal, and to the diffusion of private happiness. Thanks to the wisdom, the patrotism and the valor of our ancestors, it is not left to us, fellow citizens, to purchase our liberties at the price of our blood. To them, under the guidance of the Great Arbiter of nations, we are indebted for manifold blessings; yet there remains to us a wide field of usefulness, demanding the employment of our The whole of them are barred by the statutes best faculties. Pennsylvania, as well from her loof limitation, excepting such claims (to an inconsi-cality as from her population and resources, forms derable amount) as remain filed with the auditor an important member of the union, and her mea. of the treasury, and which have been rejected by him as inadmissable. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. Treasury Department, Register's Office, 5th January, 1817. Legislature of Pennsylvania. Address delivered by WILLIAM FIFDLAY, esq. to both houses of the legislature, on his inauguration, December 16, 1817. FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS— sures thence derive a powerful influence. It be. comes us then, ir. a spirit of conciliation and forbearance, with harmony of design and unity of action, to endeavor to render ourselves worthy of the high trust to which we are called and of the continued approbation of our country, by persevering in a disinterested devotion to her cause and by cultivating with care those means we possess of advancing the general interests. To accelerate the progress of internal improvement, and thereby unite the whole state in one com. mon bond of interest; to uphold, by all our ener. In entering upon the discharge of those duties gy, the liberty and independence of our country: to which I have been called by the voice of the to guard the rights of every citizen of the compeople, I avail myself of the opportunity now pre-wealth; to maintain the legitimate sovereignty of sented, to return to them, through you, my acknowledgments for this distinguished mark of their favor and confidence. Sensible, as I am, of the arduous duties, and high responsibilities, imposed by the constitution and laws on the executive magistrate of our state, I shall not expect to discharge them without having occasion to rely on the continuance of that favor and confidence, and to soli the state, on the one hand, whilst, on the other, we perform with fidelity our federal obligations; to provide for the general dissemination of knowledge; to advance, by salutary regulations, the prosperity of agriculture, manufactures and commerce, so far as they fall within the pale of state legislation; to render the administration of justice easy, expedi tious, and satisfactory; to establish an efficient |