akv ha spain made any unptvflton on the v o while in many parts and parti ularh in venezuela aid new grena da the colonies have gained llrength and acquired reputation both for the manage ment of the war in which they have been fuccefsful and for the order of the inter nal adminiilralion the late change in the government of spain by the re-efta- blifhmtnt of the conltitutiou of 1s12 is an event which promifes to be favorable to the revolution under the authority of the cortes the congrefsof angoftura was invited to open a negotiation for the fet- tlement of differences between the parties to which it was replied that they would willingly open the negotiation provided the acknowledgment of their independence was made its bails but not otherwife of further proceedings between them we are uninformed no facts are known to this government to warrant the belief that any of the powers of europe will take part in the cent ell whence it may be inferred confidering all circumftances which mult have weight in producing the refult that an adjutlment will finally take place on the bafis propofed by the colonies to promote that refult by friendly counfels with other powers including spain her- feif baa been the uniform policy of this government in looking to the internal concerns of our country you will i am persuaded derive much satisfaction from a view of the several objects to which in the dis charge of your official dutks yoi r at tention mill be drawn among these none holds a more important place than the public revenue from the direct ope ration of the power by v hicli it is rais ed on the people and by its influence in giving effect to every other power of the government the revenue depends on the resources of the country and the fa cility by which the amount required is raised is a strong proof of the extent of the resources and of the efficiency of the government a few promiqnt facts will place this great interest in a just light be fore you on the 30th of september 1815 the funded and floating debt of the united states mas estimated at one hun dred and nineteen millions six hundred and thirty five thousand live hundred and fifty eight dollars if to this sum be ndded the amount of five per cent stock subscribed to the bank of the united states the amount of mississippi stock and of the stork which was issued subse quently to that date the balances ascer tained to be due to certain states for mi litary services and to individuals for supplies furnished and services render ed during the jate war the public debts may be estimated as amounting at that date and as afterwards liquidated to oue hundred and fiftyeight millions se ven hundred and thirteen thousand foi tynine dollars on the thirtieth ofsep- tember 18 it amounted to ninetyone millions nine hundred and ninetythree thousand eight hundred and eightythroe dollars having been reduced in that in terval by payment sixtysix millions eight hundred and seventy nine thoiioud one hundred aud sixty five dollars lou ring this term the expences of the go vernment of the united states were 11 ke- wise defrayed in every branch of the civil militalyand naval establishments the public edifices in this city have been rebuilt with considerable additions ex tensive fortiiicalions have been commen ced and are in train of execution per manent arsenals and magazine have been erected in various parts of the union our navy has been considerably augmen- war and stores of the army and navy which were much exhausted during the nar have been replenished by the discharge of so large a propor tion of the public debt and the execu tion of such extensive and important op eration in so short a time a just esti mate may be foimed of the great extent of our national resources the demon stration is the more complete and grati fying when it is recollected that the di rect tax and excise were repealed soon after the termination of the late war and lhat the revenue applied to these purpo ses has been derived almost wholly from other sources the receipts into the treasury from every source to the 30th sept last hare amounted to sixteen millions seven hun dred and ninetyfour thousand one hun dred and seven dollars and sixty tour cents whilst the public expenditures to the same period amounted to sixteen millions eight hundred and seventyone thousand five hundred and thirtyfour dollars and seventytwo cents leaving in the treasujy on that day a sum estima ted atone million niue hundred and fif ty thousand dollars for the probable receipts of the following year i refer yon to the statement which will be trans mitted from the treasury the sum of three millions of dollars authorised to be raised by loan by an ct of the last session of congress has been obtained upon terms advantageous to government indicating not only an increased confidence in the faith of the nation but the existence of a large a- mount of capital seeking that mode of in vestment at a rate of interest not ex ceeding five per centum per annum it is proper to add that there is now due to the treasury for the sale ol pub lic lands twenty two millions nine hun dred and ninetysix thousand five hun dred and fortyfive dollars id bringing this subject to view i consider it my du ty to submit to congress whether it may not be advisable to extend to the pur chaser of these lands in consideration oi the unfavourable change which has oc curred since tht sales a reasonable in dulgence tt is known that the purcha ses were made when the price of every article had risen to its greatest height and that the instalments are becoming due at a period of great depression it is presumed that some plan may bedevi- s by tho wisdom of congress com patible with the public interest which would afford great relief to the purcha sers considerable progress has been made during the present session of examining the coast and its various bays and other inlets in the collection of materials and in the construction of fortiluutions tor the defence of the union at several of the positions at which it has been de cided to eiect such works at mobile point and dauphin island and at the kigolets leading to lake pouchariraiu materials to a considerable amount have been collected and all the necessary preparations made for the commence ment of the works at old point com fort at the mouth of james river and at the riprap on the opposite shore in the chesapeake bay materials to a vast amount have been collected and at the old point some progress had been made in the construction of the fortification which is on a very extensive scale the work at fort washington on this river will be completed early the next spring and that on the peaputch in the dela ware in the course ol the next season fort diamond at the narrows in the harbour of new voik will be finished this year the works at boston new- york baltimore norfolk charleston and niagara have been in part repaired arid the coast of north carolina extend ing south to cape fear has been exam ined as have likewise other parts of the coast eastward of boston great exer tions have been made to push forwaid thee works with the utmost dispatch possible but when their exteut is con sidered with the important purposes tor which they are intended the defence of the whole coast aud in consequence ol the whole interior and that they are to last for ages it will be manifest that a well digested plan founded on military principles connecting the whole toge ther combining security with economy could not be prepared without repeated examinations of ihe most exposed and difficult parts aud that it would also take considerable time to collect the materi als at the several points when- they would be required from all theliiiht that has been shed on this subject i am satisfied that every favourable anticipation which has been formed of this great underta king will be verified aud that when completed it will afford very great if not complete protection to our atlantic frontier in the event of another war a protection sufficient to counterbalance in a single campaign with an enemy powerful at sea the expense of all these works without taking into the estimate the saving of the lives of so many of our citizens the protection of our towns aud other pro pi ity or the tendency of such works to re vent war our military positions have been main tained at lielle point on the arkansas at council bluff on the missouri at st peters on the mississippi and at green 8a v on the upper lakes commodious barracks have already been erected at most of these posts with such works as were necessary for their detente pro gress has also been made in opening com munications between them and in rais ing supplies for each for the support of the troops by their own labour parlicu- with the indians peace has been pre- served sod a progress made in carrying into effect the act of congress making an appropriation for their civilization kith the prospect of favourable results as connected equally with both these ob jects our trade with those tribes is thought to merit the attention of congress in their original state game is their suste nance aud war their occupation and if they find no employment from civilized powers they destroy each other left to themselves their extirpation u inevi table by a judicious regulation of our trade with them we supply their wants administer to their cemfoits and gradu ally as the game retires draw them to us by maintaining posts fur in the in terior we acquired more thorough and direct control over them without which if is confidently believed that a complete change iu their manners cun uever be accomplished by such posts aided by a proper regulation of our trade with them aud a judicious civil administra tion over them to be provided for by law we shall it is presumed be enabled not only to protect our own settlements from their savage incursions and prescrvepeace among the several tribes but accomplish also the great purpose of their civiliza tion considerable progress has also been made iu the construction of ships of war some of which have been launched iu the course of the present ear our peace with the powers on the coast of barbary has been preserved but we owe it altogether to the presence of our squadron in the mediterranean it has been found equally necessary to employ some of our vessels for the protection of our commerce iu the indian sea the pa cific and along the atlantic coast the interests which we have depending in those quartern which have been much improved of late are of great extent and of high importance to the nation as well as to the parties concerned and would undouhtidly suffer if such protection was not extended to them in execu tion of the law ol the last session for the suppressioaof the slave trad cj some of a- re he our public slips h a been employ ed onthecoastof f whereseveral captures have alre made of ves sels engaged in thjt disgraceful traffic james monhok washington november 11 1880 cll r lt0v nov 12 by the ship lashplla capt macneale from london wo have received london papers to the fill oct inclusive two days later than the accounts by the im porter at new york from liverpool some extracts from which follow we irani verbally by this arrival that the expectation was general in london that the bill of pains aud penalties against the queen would pass both houses of par liament but there was nevertheless such a strong feeling in her favour through out the country that the government would be afraid to adopt any hostile measure towards her london oct c the proceedings against the queen yesterday are interesting from two cau ses from the commencement of the ex amination of the evidence for the de fence and if we look to the interior proceedings from that evidence being at once respectable and conclusively fa vourable unfortunately the nation has for some time been familiarized to an ex amination in support- of a cause which cause even were the evidence conclusive must have been ruined by the character of those who gave it we have now at lust come to evidence that may be be lieved the manners of the countess of oldi were inquired into they were found chaste and modest it was at last ask ed whether she had not a milanese brogue as if the queen of england a german by birth and an english woman in st lion were a judge of that but is the a scotchman or an irishman about tl british court that dues not speak with a brogue we eold instance one of the most intelligent mrmbeis of that very ilnise before which the investigation takes place but in this slate ivihe cross examination which it is obvious so far as it goes leaves the examination in chief perfectly untouched tor the accommodation of those rea ders whose time is so employed that they cannot toil through the evidence we tub- join a brief abstract 1 the clerk of the queen solicitor proved that the chamberlain of the grand duke of baden though anxious to come ovi r as u witness for the queen yet was afraid lest he should offend his sovereign 2 col st lrger proved that ill health was the sole cause of his having the queens service after 1 i years from 1808 to 1819 3 lord guilford visited the queen at naples and saw her in company with his sister at rome civvta vicehia aud leghorn her conduct perfectly pro per no familiarity with bcrgami vi sited the queen at villa dtte saw her in a boat with bergnmi who n wed it dined with the queen bergami and madame oldi sitting at tabic -rerga- mis manner perfectly unobtrusive the queens towards him no such as to call for any particular observation madame oldis language good italian with a slight milan accent she did not leave on lord guilfords mind that he had been conversing he conversed but little with a vulgar jouuui bcrgami did not appear superior to the situation which he had formerly rilled j lord gleobervio met the queen at genoa l4j vicnbervie volunteer ed to act as lady o bedchamber un til the arrital of l charlotte camp bell the best co u genoa at the queens house u j glen- bervie frequently s hi hxay bcrgami treated as servant without am undue famjtiarii he behaved towards his rrimress with becoming respect 5 lath chaiotic lindsay quitted the queen at brunswick according to an agreement made before she left england in 1s1 t in march 1813 saw and at tended her at naples uherc all the en glish of distinction and many neapoli tans and other foreigners of rank visit ed her majesty and frequented her table accompanied the queen to rome cevita vecchia and leghorn left her majes ty there to have the advantage of her brothers the present earl of guilford escort lo england never saw any un becoming familiarity with bergami re signed the queens service in 1s17 iu consequence of the advice of her bro ther the affair of the mariettas of milan was brought forwaid aain and lord liverpool allowed that the matter of colonel brown now required further in vestigation extract of a letter dated oporto sep tember 16- the constitutional army about 18000 men are now assembling near combra from whence they move on the 20th in three divisions towards lisbon from which place letters mention their arri val was only waited for the inhabitants and troops to join them the members of the new government had left oporto for combra and the garrison of oporto was composed of nilitia regiments which were under the commaud of gen aires ponto extract of a private letter sept 26 the revolution is completely accom plished in portugal notwithstanding all the hoi is of the regency of lisbon and the proclamation wnch it issued on the 15th infant whih declared that the mass of the population was iu arms a- gainsf the insurgents ol oporto the i 6th legiment of infantry of the line which had boon ordered lo their bar racks although it was a day of grand pa rade decided the insurrection of lisbon on the 16th about 4 oclock in the af ternoon the capt of the 7th company made an harangue to the soldiers in which he invited them to break the order of the members of the regency then this regiment with its chief at its head proceeded to the square of liocio whi ther if was soon followed by the rest of the troops of all kinds infantry aitil- lery marines and militia all manifesting the same sentiments as the iusurgents of oporto a new regency was nominated it is composed of the following individuals with the title of excellency freire count of san payo- the count llesende count de peiviiailel lieutenant general mathias joseph dias accdo and bran- camp the name of the last sounded ill in the ears of the people who asked whether the father or the son was meant upon the answer that it was the son ap probation was expressed this regency seems ouly ad interim till the junta of oporto arrives the whole was done in the name of king john vi- to the cries of vivas for the house of bragana for religion kc orders were sent to the tower of be- lem at the bar of the river to allow no vessel to sail without the authority of go- vernmont the above news which i give you out of a spanish publication is official- the english who were in portugal have not had to suffer any indignity the military have been asked not to wear the uniform of their nation newyork nov 24 laic from england the fliip martha capt fikctchley has jn ft arrived from liverpool whence he failed on the morning of the i ith of oc tober the editors of the commercial advertifcr have received from their atten tive qfirxafstmilnute lwidftfl ijmjfc the 9th of october lloyds and shipping lift of the 7th and liverpool papers of the 1 rth incluflve the latenefs of the hour prevents us from giving detailed ac counts the counfcl for the qneen concluded their addrefles to the houfe of lords on the 5th of oober and proceeded to bring forward their witneffes on her majeftys bch fourteen or fifteen witnefles have been examined among thefc are col st le- ger lord guilford lord glenbervie lord landoff hon keppel craven lady charlotte undfey and others the stacfnan an oppofition paper fys 14 the evidence of thefc honorable perfonages will be highly favorable to her majefty we have not had time to perufe the teftimony furnifhed by this arrival and are therefore unable to fpeak of its general chamctter addrcfles continue to come in to her majcdy to each of which he promptly returns an anfwer well calculated to pleafc the people on the 5th of october before proceed ing with the trial of the queen lord holland called the attention of the houfe of lords to the fituation of political af fairs upon the continent he dated that warlike preparations of a moft cxtenfivc nature were carrying on in atiflria and it was alfo avowed that the objedh againfl whom tliofe preparations were intended were the people of maples after fpeak- ing in terms of high fatifaftion of ihe late revolutions upon the continent ii ts uiivillhiip aannhnlttl r impiiinfg rtfttj whether the aullrian government had offi cially communicated to his majeftys min idem the object of the prefent warlike pre parations of audria and if they had whether they had folicited any counte nance or afgliance pecuniary or otherwife for the promotion of that object and fecondly what was the anfwer which the minlfters of his majcdy had given to that folicitation in the conrfe of his reply lord liverpool faid that there was not the lead intention of interfering in the af fairs of the states of italy and that the government of this kingdom had entered into no engagement whatever of any de- fcription for fuch a purpafe from the liverpool courier of oct- 1 1 the queen the defence of her ma jtfly has commenced and that we may afford as much room as poffible for the gratfication of our readers by as large a report of the evidence as poflible we fhall omit at prefent any remarks of our own we may gather from the fpeeches of her majeftys couofel that their object will be to prove from refpesable perfons that as far as they lad the opportunities of obfer- vation he was guilty of no impropriety of conduct and to difprove fo much of the evidence already given as to overturn the character of the reft the firft will prove little the fecond is the point this it what the country is waiting for if thh be done we fhall be among the firft to a low that the cafe in fltaken we abhor the proceedings of faction we lament and condemn the courfe of conduct the queen has taken under the influence of men of the word defigns but we ate anxious that if innocent her innocence fhould be made to appear london oct 7 the honfe of lords this forenoon has been occupied chiefly with the examination of the valel of the hon keppel craven oie of the objej of tins examination has been to fhew the meretricious character of the celebrated witnefs demont his inter- views with her while locked up by her in her bedchamber c another aim was to have expofed the mendacious character of he- friend majocchi a difcuffion of lonw length and importance arafc as to a converfation which the valet had held with majocchi refpcciiiig the conduct ol baron ornpteda this kind of examination was objected to on the ground that majocchi had not given evidence on the fubjiicj of the baron mr brougham contended that majocchi had been queltiorud a to a fact which he pretended he did net remem ber nnd that this non mi rkordo wus al leged in order to conceal the truth it was not probable or potuble that this for- getfulnefs could have actually taken place for mr brougham could prove that ma jocchi was not only prefent when the fadl occurred but even held a cpnverlation fub fequently refpefling it statesman london oct 5 as foon as the decree relative to the fupprcftton of the jefuits had been offi cially publiflnd their fchools were fliut and all their fcholare fent home the names of don ju3n dias porlier and of don luis iafcy are to be inferib ed on tlfe tablet of the worthy letvants of their country this tablet will be placed in the hall of the cortes from madrid we have accounts dated the 22d ult that the difcuflton on thr fubjeft of the spanifh refugees in france had lafted three days and had been termi nated the day befoie by a majority ol 1 z votes to 29 all the refugees return to their own country with the entire reditu tion of their property and civil rights from rome it ia dated that the pope had been carneftly folicited on the part of the cabinet of vienna to cooperate in the edablifhment of a confederation of all the princes of italy from spain we learn that the corte had received addreltes from a number of the municipal bodies throughout the kingdom congratulating them upon the fupprtffion of the feditioui movement which threatened the capital on the 7th oi laft month it is faid that the political chief of murcia had arrciled the superior of a dominican convent in that city tiona ready printed exciting the people to a counterrevolution and apprizing them that foreign troop had ariived to refcuc the king from his prefent thraldom jluthor of the scotth novels the london magazine for the month of october asserts on what the editors deem unquestionable au thority that mrs scott formerly mis3 mculioch the lady ofthomas scott esq paymaster to the 70th regiment at present in cairada and brother to sir waiter scott is the writer of these novels and not mr thomas scott himself as lately erroneously staled extract of a letter from batavia to a genth man in boston dated june 20 1820 the attention of the government for a conftderable time has been taken up in their palembang expedition the failure of that of the laft year was attended with confiderable lofs of men not in battle but by the raging jungle fever of that unwhole- fome place having gone there too late in the feafon the landing was rendered in- acceffible by the deluge of rain and wet marfhy grounds and the expenfes have been great the quarrel originated by the rcfident of that place a mr muntin- gui in taxing the sultan until his refour- ces were almoft exhaufted together with a llrong defire to infringe upon the sultans territories which the sultan could not en dure and drove the dutch away to a man with the exception of a couliderablc num ber who were flain since that period the sultan has fortified the borders of the river erecting floating batteries and put the river in fuch a ftate of defence that it villi yiikitijkiirfaticvuicr pttsm aon of that fettlement can be retaken all thefc preparations have been executed by two french deferters from their own troops one is faid to be a capable engi neer having ferved under napoleon there has been a confiderable buttle of late refpefting a fecond expedition but for want of fufficlent troops it has been de ferred until a new importation which i9 daily expected from holland unlefs they foon arrive the expedition we are tod will be put off as the feafon is far advan cing nearly all the troops in the ifland at prefent are belgians and french and there appears a great diffatiafaftion among them fo much fo that the few dutch troops in whm they can confide are pro vided with two rounds of cartridges and are kept in readinefs in cafe of furprife the government though under the direction of one of the beft of men has been moll un fortunate they have experienced within a few years immenfe lofles several fhip- ments to europe of nearly fix millicns of rupees have ben loft by wrecks and this year in two hipments to the eaftern ifl- ands of 150 and 1 6ooco dollars it has fuftained a lofs by pirates and wrecks the moft able man of this government in which he was a member of counfel died the laft month a man well known by all the americans who have vifited java mr van oraam this death is fevcrely felt by this government the pirates have been very numerous this year and fo dar ing that a cargo boat loaded with fugar apparatus was captured three miles only from this harbor although many ame ricans have had the good fortune to efcape thefe robbers still they run great risk in general being fo lightly armed salem nov 21 revolution in hajti the revolution commenced at cape henry oct 6 a- mong the troops 3000 in number they revolted in the evening of that day and marched immediately under he duke marmalade governor of cape henry to autacap seven miles from the cape w here they encamped christophe w ho had been confined for some time at his palace of sun souci with a paralytic