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And that every gentleman may know how his account stands on the books of the office, he will find within this sheet something to shew him the year, or years, as the case may be apparently due to September 1818, or to such other time within the year as it may extend to.* But in too many instances, by the receipt of monies from agents without directions to whose credit it should pass, the amount that seems due may be wrong: yet the proceeding will cause an enquiry to be instituted which will produce a satisfactory explanation-and, in the mean tine, the sum really due may be forwarded as above. The GENERAL INDEX and volume of REVOLUTIONARY SPEECHES, &c. are soon expected to be ready for the press. The editor ventures to promise that the former will meet the public wishes; for patience, itself, is impressed into our service to render it an easy and certain reference to every thing desired to be found. It will make a large volume, and the price of it, in sheets, cannot be less than three dollars. As to the other, we cannot speak so confidently: by the letters of the late gov. M'Kean to president Adams, published a few days ago, it appears that it was not the practice to make sel-speeches in the old congresses as it is in the present, and much of the *Except those delivered in Baltimore-where subscribers will be waited upon. [Our readers will recollect that at the time of the It gives me great pleasure thus to make known ting forth the discovery of the mineral, the comto you for the information of the parties concerned, mencement and progress of the manufacture, and the satisfactory result of the steps which were taken the happy results to the country, rendering it indeby this department in consequence of your letter of pendent of Europe for an essential article of genethe 17th of September 1816. ral use. The president was pleased to express his satisfaction on the developement of such an important natural resource of the nation. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, sir, your bedient servant, RICHARD RUSH, acting secretary. William P. Preble, esquire, Attorney of the United States for the District of Maine. (COPY.) fabrics. The Boston Centinel observes-In the places at which the president, in his tour makes any stay, his first attention is given to objects of national defence; but his nex, is devoted to the various manufacturing establishments. On this subject we are assured, he has expressed not only his delight, but The undersigned, his majesty's principal secrehis surprise at their extent and improvement. He tary of state for foreign affairs, has the honor to mentioned, we are told, at Waltham, that a few acquaint Mr. Adams, in reference to the note which such establishments as he there saw would be the undersigned had the honor to receive from him suficient to supply the United States with cotton, on the 17th January last, respecting certain bonds seized during the late war at Moose Island, that orWe ought to add, that the superb apartments ders have been given for the immediate suspension provided for the president's accommodation in the of all further proceedings against Mr. Baxter, as Exchange Coffee House, were from our own ware well as for relieving, as suggested by Mr. Adams houses. That the highly finished Piano-Forte which in his note, the other obligors from any possible decorated the drawing-room, was from the musical operation against them of the decree of condemna- establishment in Milk-street; and that the entire tion passed by the Vice-Admiralty court of Halifax. service of glass ware used at the sumptuous dinner The undersigned regrets that such a delay has given on the day of the president's arrival here, intervened between the receipt of Mr. Adams' note was manufactured at the Boston glass-house. The and the present reply, but has the honor to acquaint attention of the president was arrested by the beau him that his majesty's advocate general was anxious ty and ponderosity of this ware; and on learning its to obtain all the information in Lis power respect-origin, he expressed much gratification. ing the transaction, and likewise to have a personal "Small things speak loud truths." We shall not conference with the captors or their agent before omit to mention, that previous to the arrival of the he gave in his report of the merits of the case. The undersigned avails himself of this opportuni. ty to renew to Mr. Adams the assurance of his high consideration. (Signed) CASTLEREAGH. FOREIGN OFFICE, May 21, 1817. President's Tour. president here, the people of the towns on the rods he was expected to pass, turned out and removed every impediment, so that not a pebble shoukl obstruct a journey which all believed to be well-tim ed, and weil intended, and which, while it increas es the knowledge of the visitor will subserve the best interests of the visited. The Centinel also says, "We deem the following anecdote worthy of record-In the widow of the late president Wheelock, the president found the fair comforter who dressed the wound which he received in the memorable battle of Trenton in 1777. As they had not before seen each other since that period, the emotions which the interview occasioned may be better conceived than described." ANECDOTES AND SCRAPS—and progress of his journey. On the late visit of the PRESIDENT to the Inde pendence 74, com. BAINBRIDGE, with that attention to the interests of those under his command which so strongly characterizes him, on presenting his officers, detained acting midshipman King, while he mentioned his escape alone in an open boat from Bermuda.-[For an account of which, see WEEKLY REGISTER, Vol. IV. page 385.] At Biddeford he was accompanied by a cavalcade The last Boston Intelligencer relates the follow-through the village, towards Saco, where he passed ing, in speaking of the president's tour :under an arch over the bridge, amidst discharges At York, Mr. Monroe was waited upon by the venerable judge Sewall, of the United States dis trict court, now in his 82nd year, who delivered the address. At Enfield, Vermont, he visited the " Habitation of artillery, and the huzzas of the people-and reof the Shaken community" to use their own phraseo-ceived an address from the selectmen. He then prology, or in more familiar language the Shaking Qua-ceeded to Scarborough, where an arch crossing the kers. He was received with the simplicity that dis-high way decorated with roses, bore the inscription tinguishes that sect. The elder came forth from "united we stand." At Woodstock the bridge was the principal house in the settlement and addres-ornamented with nineteen arches of evergreens sed the president, "I Joseph Goodrich welcome and flowers, festooned with taste, and each bearing James Monroe to our habitation." The president the name of a state; and on a twentieth were nineexamined the institution and their manufactures, teen stars. He alighted from the carriage to pass was also welcomed by the women, and having re. mained about an hour, he retired very much pleased with his visit. At Strafford, the president, at the invitation of col. Binney, examined the extensive manufactory of copperas owned by gentlemen in Boston, in whose behalf col. Binney had been delegated to make the invitation, and explain the extent and utility of the establishment. This was done to the entire satisfaction of the President, both by actual observation and in a written communication, set under them. At Portland there was much parade and ceremony as has already been mentioned. The English ships in the harbor were decorated with flags and in the evening with lamps. The illumina tion was very general and splendid. At Mr. Clap's party where he spent the evening, 300 persons were present. At judge Thatcher's, where he breakfasted, Den. Samuel Chase, in the 99th year of his age, was introduced to him. He addressed the president with the simplicity of a christian and affection of a father. It was an interesting scene-The president's feelings were evidently touched, especially when Under your administration, may our civil, relithe good old man rose, and with all the dignity of gious, and literary institutions be protected and enan ancient patriarch pronounced his parting bles-couraged; commerce, agriculture and manufactures sing. fostered and promoted, and that freedom and inde. At Dover N. II. he was addressed on behalf of pendance which, in the field, you labored to achieve, the people, and spent the evening at the seat of defended and preserved. William Hale, esq. At Concord he was handsomely That your hands may be strengthened, and your received by the selectmen and a committee of the heart encouraged, in the discharge of the high ducitizens, with a display of troops, discharges of ar-ties of your office, we would commend you to the tillery, &c. After refreshments, the address was favor of that Being who is the fountain of all power presented to him on a stage erected for the pur and wisdom, with our ardent asp cations to Him pose, amidst the acclamations of the people. At that your life may be long and happy; that the unidinner, he gave for his toast-"the town of Concordon of these states, our republicau form of govern -may its inhabitants continue to flourish and pros-ment, and the prosperity of our beloved country, per." He was very generally visited-judge Wal- may be perpetual. ker, 80 years old, paid his respects to him. He took an excursion on board a pleasure boat, decorated, &c. for the occasion, and called the Presi dent, owned by J. Langdon Sullivan, esq. on the Merrimack, and examined the locks and passed through them, &c. He returned by land, and spent the even ing at col. Kent's-attended divine service the next day (Sunday the 20th of July) and left the place the following morning, greeted with music and the huzzas of the populace. PORTLAND ADDRESS. May it please the president of the United States. The committee of arrangements wait on you, sir, in behalf of the citizens of Portland, on your arrival in this town, to tender you the homage due to the chief magistrate of a free republic. A visit, for the first time, to this place, of a personage of such high distinction, who has so recently been elected, under such favorable auspices, to wield the destinies of a great people, will be expected to excite no ordinary sensation. We see in your elevation to the chief magistarcy, a fellow-citizen of great experience in the policy of nations, and one whose life has been spent in the service of his native country. We have ever been among those who have deemed experience to be the only correct source of political wisdom, and have never ceased to place a higher value upon its precepts, than upon the theories of imagination. Your tour through the union evinces how highly you appreciate the knowledge, derived from your own observation, above the uncertain intelligence, collected from other sources. And the early period of your presidential term, at which this tour is commenced, augurs auspiciously to the great interest of our common country. May all your efforts to promote the honor and advance the prosperity of the nation, be duly appreciated by an enlightened and grateful people. In behalf of the committee of arrangements. The answer of the president was full and affectionate. He repeated the leading objects of his tour, among which was an examination into the state of commerce;-That in pursuing these objects he had every where met the most respectful attentions, and friendly reception; and particularly so in Portland. He spoke of the great importance of com. merce, as it respected the country at large, and this section of the union in particular, and that to encour. age it, with other institutions, and to preserve and maintain the union, independence, freedom and prosperity of the nation, would be his constant endeavors. ADDRESS OF THE CLERGY, To the president of the United States. SIR-The misisters of the Lord Jesus Christ of different denominations, in Portland and vicinity, amid the congratulations of their fellow-citizens, would now, in a body, tender their respectful and christian salutations: Opening to you their bosoms, revered sir,and imploring on you the divine presence, guidance and support, as the father of a great and happy people: That you may have, in continuance, a prosperous journey, by the will of God, through the northern and western parts of these United States, a safe return to the capital, and to the bosom of your family: That the morning of your presidency, being a morning without clouds, which has thrown such a lustre upon our public affairs, and occasioned such surprising harmony in the public feelings, may indeed be as the shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. And when, sir, your hands are heavy under the weight of a nation's cares, be assured the intercession of our closets, and of our altars, (animated by the grateful remembrance of your presence amongst us) shall be always going up to the mercy-seat in your behalf: That through your instrumentality the llere, sir, you behold a town once a victim to the beauty of the Lord our God may be upon us, and war of that revolution, in which you commenced his glory appear to our children. And having serv. your patriotic career. What you now see is but ed your generation according to the will of God, in the Phenix from its ashes, reanimated and invigo-a good old age, and full of days, and of honors, may rated by the vivifying influence of the federal con- you be gathered unto the illustrious fathers, who stitution. To the fostering care of the general gorest from their public labors, and enter with them vernment, to its protection and encouragement of into heavenly glory. commercial interests, we are indebted for the prosperity we have enjoyed, and on its future protection and encouragement must we rely, for the accomplishment of our best hopes. Permit us, sir, to bid you welcome; to present you with the respectful salutations of our fellow citizens. May your visit, here, afford you some portion of that satisfaction is imparts to others. And be assured that in all your exertions to promote the public welfare, you will be aided and supported by the patrio tism of this section of the union. The president's reply, as near as can be recollected. GENTLEMEN-Among the numerous tokens of respect, which has been shown me by my fellow-citizens, during my present tour, undertaken to advance the public interest, I have received none more grateful than the one I now receive from you, the ministers of our Lord and Saviour. Be assured that the kind sentiments of your affectionate address, especially those which regard my person, are warmly reciprocated. A proper reverence for our Maker, and indeed religion in general, leaving all men, however, free to act agreeable to the dictates of their own consciences, will ever meet my approbation and support. I am sensible, gentlemen, that I cannot do justice to your address, in this summary reply, I must therefore conclude by repeating to you the assurance of my great satisfaction in receiving this testimony of your regard, and by requesting you to accept my thanks for your respectful and christian salutation. Addresses were also delivered to him while at Portland, by deputies from the towns of Bath, Wiscassett, Brunswick and Topsham, inviting him to continue his tour further eastward, to which he made the following reply: (meet the chief magistrate of the nation, on his en. tering our district, and to pay him our respects-It being the first time a president of the United States has visited this section of the country, it is a source of peculiar satisfaction to meet and greet one whose private virtue and public administrations have been so much and so justly admired by the people of Maine. Permit us, sir, for ourselves and our friends, to congratulate you on your election as president; to bid you a cordial welcome to this part of the union; to tender you our services to alleviate the fatigues of your journey, and our wishes and exertions that all your labors for the people may be received with gratitude and crowned with success.-Through the wisdom of yourself and your co-patriots, the patriotism of the people and the favor of Heaven, you have the singular felicity to receive the voluntary homage of the nation, and to witness its peace prosperity, freedom and happiness. This journey, like the journey of your life, is commenced and pursued for the public good. FELLOW-CITIZENS-I beg you to be assured, that it would afford me great and sincere pleasure, to proceed to the towns which you represent, and even to Castine, if imperious circumstances lid not prevent it. I undertook this tour, to acquire infor- Like that, its fatigues have been endured with mation, by personal inspection, of our principal patience, its obstacles overcome with perseverance, harbors, of the entrances into them, of the state of its storms encountered with firmness, and its rethe public works, and of the points at which it freshing sunshines relished with equanimity and might be proper to erect others, and it was my ob- gratitude-In each, as you have advanced, you have ject to embrace in it the Atlantic coast, to the acquired additional honor, reverence and love. In extent mentioned, and the inland frontier, as far your future progress in both may your health be as Detroit. I now find, notwithstanding the exer- preserved, your country's prosperity and glory setions which I have made, that if I proceed further cured and the affections, confidence and union of to the eastward, I shall be compelled to abandon the people, increased and confirmed. all the western part of my contemplated tour, or And when these respective journies shall be endbe thrown on the lakes at an unfavorable season; ed and you return home, may you at the close of and shall likewise be detained from the seat of go-the one be received in health and happiness to the vernment, longer than a due regard, for other im- embraces of an affectionate family, and of the other portant national interests, will permit. I regret, to the favor and fruition of Him, who will never fail therefore, to be compelled by these considerations, to reward the great and the good. to terminate my tour, sastward, here; consideraJohn Holmes, tions, which will, I doubt not, have their due weight, with you, and my other fellow-citizens of the dis trict of Maine. I am happy to meet here deputies, from so many of the towns, to the eastward, because, from you, I shall receive much information, touching your local interests, which will be useful. I shall pay to it, the utmost attention in my power. I am aware, that the prosperity of the towns in this district, and I may extend the remark to the United States, depends on the prosperous state of their commerce. Nothing is more just, than that our trade with foreign powers, should be placed, in every branch, on a footing of reciprocal and equal advantage.-It gives me pleasure to state, that this important interest, has already received the consideration of the national councils, and that I have no doubt, it will continue to be duly attended to until it is placed on a just, and satisfactory footing. A. K. Parris, The president made an extemporaneous reply, and expressed "the high gratification" he felt "in being thus met and received by gentlemen, for whose private virtues and public character he entertained so much respect." CONCORD ADDRESS. To the President of the United States. SIR-Permit us, as the organ of the citizens of Concord, to express the high satisfaction we feel in beholding the president of the United States in our village, and in having an opportunity to present you our most respectful acknowledgements for this distinguished honor. On all the great concerns, of this highly favored and happy nation, there is but one common interest. We are all equally interested in preserving our present republican government and institutions, in All hearts, sir, bid you welcome-We deem it a their utmost purity; we are all equally interested, peculiarly happy circumstance, that in discharging in adopting suitable measures of defence, land, the important duty of examining the works of deand naval; and in the proper protection and en- fence on our exterior lines, you witness universal couragement of our commerce; and it is highly eagerness and cordiality in the salutations you regratifying to me, to witness, in the whole extent of ceive in every place you visit. Upon this auspicious my tour, that great harmony of opinion prevails, occasion party feelings are buried, and buried we on all these important points. JAMES MONROE. MAINE ADDRESS. would hope forever. A new era we trust is commencing. The leading measures of the general government accord remarkably with the views and principles of all parties; and your private as well SIR-AS citizens of Maine we take the liberty to as public character furnish us a pledge, that you To the president of the United States. will endeavor to make your administration a bles- July 18, 1817. Foreign Articles. ENGLAND, &c. were arraigned for high treason, at the court of Waston, sen. Preston, Thistlewood and Hooper, King's Bench, on the 9th of June. The trials appear to have much excited the public attention. Subscriptions, by a placard publicly posted up, were requested and readily obtained to repay the expense of the defence. Great pomp and ceremony has To this address the president made an extem-been observed on the occasion. poraneous reply of some length. GOVERNOR PLUMER'S LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT. "The captain of the yeoman, or gentlemen jailors, and the lieutenant of the tower," says a London Paper, were placed by the side of Watson at the Dar. that the prisoners, as they insisted on the right of Being arraigned, the attorney-general moved, challenging jurors, should be tried separately; to which lord Ellenborough assented. The indictment consists of four counts and a great many specifications: New-Hampshire, executive department, EPPING, JULY, 18, 1817. DEAR SIR-It is to me a subject of much regret, that in your tour through New-Hampshire, I have been unable to pay you that respectful attention, and those personal civilities, which I consider due both to your private cha acter, and official station. You were verbally informed, while at Portsmouth, of my severe indisposition; and I am now obliged to add, that I am still confined to my chamber and bed by an attack of the typhus fever, which has king to death." not yet, I fear, reached its crisis. This unfortunate event has deprived me of the satisfaction of a per sonal interview with you; and prevented me from receiving a visit at this place, with which I had Aattered myself you would have honored me. I was 1. For compassing and imagining to put the 2. For compassing and imagining to depose the king. &c. 3. For levying war against the king, on the 24. Dec. 1816, at the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, A military escort having been called out by the 4. For conspiring to levy war against the king, governors of some of the states, to accompany in order to compel him to change his measures. you through those parts of the country, It will be recollected that a British sloop of war, desirous that the same tribute of respect should called the Tay, laden with 800,000 dollars, was be paid you on your passage through New-Hamp: vessel was surrendered to the Spaniards as a prize, lost on the coast of Mexico, some time ago. The shire. The power to call out such an escort seemed at first view incident to the nature of my and the officers gave up themselves, and their office as commander in chief of the militia; yet so crew as prisoners of war. accurately is this command defined, and so cau- gating the subject, has justified the officers in their A court martial, investitiously restricted, by the prudence, or the jealousy, conduct, deciding that the only way they had to of our state constitution, that I have authority at prevent the flag from being insulted was to strike it, no time to order out the militia, except for cer. &c. on account of the treacherous and outrageous tain known objects particularly designated in the conduct of the Spaniards. The subject was be constitution and by the laws enacted under it. Ifore parliament, & Castlereagh stated that the prohave though proper to make this staten:ent, both per remonstrances had been made to the Spanish in justice to myself, and to the state over which government in respect to it. Ma preside a state which yields to none in the union, We have long accounts of the riots of the people either in attachment to the general government, of Ireland, for want of bread, of the attacks upon or in respect to the distinguished individual, who, places where flour, &c. was deposited, and the dewith its full consent and approbation has been fence by the military, and the like. In some of. raised to the first office in the gift of the nation. these affrays certain persons were killed. The This letter will be delivered to you by the secre. Saying that "hunger will break through stone walls,” tary of state. Had my health permitted, I should has been literally fulfilled, in several cases. Irave taken great pleasure in waiting upon you in ny have been arrested to answer their crimes. person during the time you remained in this state, A motion was made in the house of commons on and in suggesting some objects of inquiry, which the 10th of June for a list of the number of permight perhaps have merited your attention in this sons and their names, ages and places of confinepart of our common country. But in my presentment, under the suspension of the habeas corpus condition I can only add my sincere congratula act, and lost-the vote stood 104 to 53-majority tions, and my best wishes for the success of your administration, which has commenced under circumstances peculiarly favorable to yourself and to our beloved country. I have the honor to be with the highest personal respect and esteem, Dear sir, your most obedient, humble servant, The president, having visited several places in Vermont, embarked on board one of the stem boats on lake Champlain, and examined its posts and memorable places-visited Plattsburgh, reach ed Ogdensburg on the 29th of July, and was expected at Sackett's Harbor on the 1st August. He had been joined by maj, gen. Brown. for ministers 51. A proposition to prohibit the export of corn to France, had been before parliament. Lord Castlereagh opposed it, considering it unnecessary, as the difficulties of that country were nearly overthe rye harvest being about to commence. In Nottinghamshire the riots have been pretty formidable-the people cried out for a "revolution." But the military checked them and apprehended 30 miserable wretches. Part of Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Cheshire are exceedingly agitated by mobs. The lords lieutenants have been ordered instantly to repair to them. Many are arrested. Report of the committee of secrecy-Further suspen |