Thanks to the Speaker.-Raising of Silk.-Slave Trade.-Treaty with Austria.

Mr. DWIGHT moved the following resolution, viz. Resolved, That the 17th joint rule be suspended, with Resolved, That the President of the United States be the concurrence of the Senate, so far as to allow the bills requested to renew and to prosecute from time to time of this House, which were passed or acted upon yester- such negotiations with the several maritime Powers of day, as also the bill making appropriations for building Europe and America, as he may leem expedient, for the lighthouses, lightboats, beacons, monuments, and plac-effectual abolition of the African slave trade, and its ultiing buoys, the bill for the relief of Percis Lovely, and the mate denunciation, as piracy, under the law of nations, by bill from the Senate for the relief of the heirs and repre- the consent of the civilized world.

Resolved, That the Speaker be requested to answer, in behalf of the House, the aforesaid letter, and to express the acknowledgments of the House for this manifestation of the United States, by Mr. Donelson, his private SecreA message, in writing, was received from the President of the interest taken by distinguished foreigners in the welfare and prosperity of the United States, and that the said books be placed in the public library.

Adjournment.

the ratifications of which were exchanged on the 10th of nation in the intelligence, virtue, and patriotism of its February last.

TO THE

REGISTER OF DEBATES IN CONGRESS.

TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION.

LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE U. STATES.

SENATE.

MAINE.-John Holmes, Peleg Sprague.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.--Samuel Bell, Levi Woodbury.
MASSACHUSETTS.-Nathaniel Silsbee, Dan'l Webster.
CONNECTICUT.-Samuel A. Foot, Calvin Willey.
RHODE ISLAND.-Nehemiah R. Knight, Asher Robbins.
VERMONT.-Dudley Chase, Horatio Seymour.
NEW YORK.-Nathan Sanford, Charles E. Dudley.
NEW JERSEY-Theodore Frelinghuysen, Mahlon Dick-

erson.

PENNSYLVANIA.-William Marks, Isaac D. Barnard.
DELAWARE.-John M. Clayton, Arnold Naudain.
MARYLAND.-Samuel Smith, Ezekiel Chambers.
VIRGINIA.-L. W. Tazewell, John Tyler.

NORTH CAROLINA.-James Iredell, Bedford Brown.
SOUTH CAROLINA-William Smith, Robert Y. Hayne.
GEORGIA.-George M. Troup, John Forsyth.
KENTUCKY.-John Rowan, George M. Bibb.
TENNESSEE.-Hugh L. White, Felix Grundy.
OHIO.-Benjamin Ruggles, Jacob Burnet.
LOUISIANA.-Josiah S. Johnston, Edward Livingston.
INDIANA.-William Hendricks, James Noble.
MISSISSIPPL-Powhatan Ellis, George Poindexter.
ILLINOIS.-Elias K. Kane, David J. Baker.
ALABAMA.-John M'Kinley, William R. King.
MISSOURI.-David Barton, Thomas H. Benton.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MAINE.-John Anderson, Samuel Butman, George Evans, Rufus M'Intire, Cornelius Holland, Joseph F. Wingate, Leonard Jarvis.

NEW HAMPSHIRE-John Brodhead, Thomas Chandler, Joseph Hammons, Jonathan Harvey, Henry Hubbard, John W. Weeks.

MASSACHUSETTS.-John Bailey, Isaac C. Bates, B. W. Crowninshield, John Davis, Henry W. Dwight, Edward Everett, Benjamin Gorham, George Grennell, jr. James L. Hodges, Joseph G. Kendall, John Reed, Joseph Richardson, John Varnum.

PENNSYLVANIA.-James Buchanan, Richard Coulter, Thomas H. Crawford, Harmar Denny, Joshua Evans, Chauncey Forward, Joseph Fry, Jr. James Ford, Innis Green, John Gilmore, Joseph Hemphill, Peter Ihrie, jr. Thomas Irwin, Adam King, George G. Leiper, H. A. Muhlenburg, Alem Marr, Daniel H. Miller, William M'Creery, William Ramsay, John Scott, Philander Stephens, John B. Sterigere, Joel B. Sutherland, Samuel A. Smith, Thomas H. Sill.

DELAWARE.-Kensey Johns, Jr.

MARYLAND.-Elias Brown, Clement Dorsey, Benj. C. Howard, George E. Mitchell, Michael C. Sprigg, Benedict I. Semmes, Richard Spencer, George C. Washington, Ephraim K. Wilson.

VIRGINIA.-Mark Alexander, Robert Allen, William S. Archer, William Armstrong, John S. Barber, John M. Patton, J. T. Boulding, Richard Coke, Jr. Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Robert B. Craig, Philip Doddridge, Thomas Davenport, William F. Gordon, Lewis Maxwell, Charles F. Mercer, William M'Coy, Geo. Loyall, John Roane, Joseph Draper, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, James Trezvant.

NORTH CAROLINA.-Willis Alston, Daniel L. Barringer, Samuel P. Carson, H. W. Conner, Edmund Deberry, Edward B. Dudley, Thomas H. Hall, Robert Potter, Wm. B. Shepard, Augustine H. Shepperd, Jesse Speight, Lewis Williams, Abraham Rencher.

SOUTH CAROLINA.-Robert W. Barnwell, James Blair, John Campbell, Warren R. Davis, Wm. Drayton, Wm. D. Martin, George M'Duffie, Wm. T. Nuckolls, Starling Tucker.

GEORGIA.-Thomas F. Foster, Charles E. Haynes, Wilson Lumpkin, Henry G. Lamar, Wiley Thompson, Richard H. Wilde, James M. Wayne.

KENTUCKY.-James Clark, Ñ. D. Coleman, Thomas Chilton, Henry Daniel, Nathaniel Gaither, R. M. Johnson, John Kincaid, Joseph Lecompte, Chittenden Lyon, Robert P. Letcher, Charles A. Wickliffe, Joel Yancey.

TENNESSEE.-John Blair, John Bell, David Crockett, Robert Desha, Jacob C. Isacks, Cave Johnson, Pryor Lea, James K. Polk, James Standefer.

RHODE ISLAND —Tristam Burges, Dutee J. Pearce. OHIO.-Mordecai Bartley, Joseph H. Crane, William CONNECTICUT.-Noyes Barber, William W. Ells- Creighton, James Findlay, Wm. W. Irvin, William Kenworth, J. W. Huntington, Ralph J. Ingersoll, W. Inon, Humphrey H. Leavitt, Wm. Russel, Wm. StanberStorrs, Ebenezer Young. ry, James Shields, John Thompson, Joseph Vance, Samuel F. Vinton, Elisha Whittlesey.

VERMONT.-William Cahoon, Horace Everett, Jonathan Hunt, Rollin C. Mallary, Benjamin Swift.

NEW YORK.-William G. Angel, Benedict Arnold, Thomas Beekman, Abraham Bockee, Peter I. Borst, C. C. Cambreleng, Jacob Crocheron, Timothy Childs, Henry B. Cowles, S. W. Eager, Charles G. Dewitt, John D. Dickinson, Jonas Earll, jr. Isaac Finch, Michael Hoffman, Joseph Hawkins, Jehiel II. Halsey, Perkins King, James Lent, John Magee, Henry C. Martindale, Robert Monell, Thomas Maxwell, E. F. Norton, Gershom Powers, Robert S. Rose, Jonah Sanford, Henry R. Storrs, James Strong, Ambrose Spencer, John W. Taylor, Phineas L. Tracy, Gulian C. Verplanck, Campbell P. White.

NEW JERSEY.-Lewis Condict, Richard M. Cooper, Thomas M. Hughes, Isaac Pierson, James F. Randolph, Samuel Swann.

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LOUISIANA.-Henry H. Gurley, W. H. Overton, Edward D. White.

INDIANA.-Ratliff Boon, Jonathan Jennings, John

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate

and of the House of Representatives : The pleasure I have in congratulating you on your return to your constitutional duties is much heightened by the satisfaction which the condition of our beloved | country at this period justly inspires. The beneficent Author of all good has granted to us, during the present year, health, peace, and plenty, and numerous causes for joy in the wonderful success which attends the progress of our free institutions.

An arrangement has been effected with Great Britain, in relation to the trade between the United States and her West India and North American colonies, which has settled a question that has for years afforded matter for contention and almost uninterrupted discussion, and has been the subject of no less than six negotiations, in a manner which promises results highly favorable to the parties.

The abstract right of Great Britain to monopolize the trade with her colonies, or to exclude us from a partici pation therein, has never been denied by the U. States. But we have contended, and with reason, that if, at any time, Great Britain may desire the productions of this country as necessary to her colonies, they must be received upon principles of just reciprocity; and further, that it is making an invidious and unfriendly distinction, to open her colonial ports to the vessels of other nations, and close them against those of the United States. Antecedently to 1794, a portion of our productions was With a population unparalleled in its increase, and pos- admitted into the colonial islands of Great Britain, by parsessing a character which combines the hardihood of en- ticular concession, limited to the term of one year, but terprise with the considerateness of wisdom, we see in renewed from year to year. In the transportation of every section of our happy country a steady improvement these productions, however, our vessels were not allowed in the means of social intercourse, and correspondent ef- to engage; this being a privilege reserved to British shipfects upon the genius and laws of our extended republic. ping, by which alone our produce could be taken to the The apparent exceptions to the harmony of the pros-islands, and theirs brought to us in return. From Newpect are to be referred rather to inevitable diversities in foundland and her continental possessions, all our producthe various interests which enter into the composition of tions, as well as our vessels, were excluded, with occa so extensive a whole, than to any want of attachment to sional relaxations, by which, in seasons of distress, the the Union-interests whose collisions serve only, in the former were admitted in British bottoms. end, to foster the spirit of conciliation and patriotism, so essential to the preservation of that unión which, I most devoutly hope, is destined to prove imperishable.

In the midst of these blessings, we have recently witnessed changes in the condition of other nations, which may, in their consequences, call for the utmost vigilance, wisdom, and unanimity, in our councils, and the exercise of all the moderation and patriotism of our people.

By the treaty of 1794, she offered to concede to us, for a limited time, the right of carrying to her West India possessions, in our vessels not exceeding seventy tons burden, and upon the same terms as British vessels, any productions of the United States which British vessels might import therefrom. But this privilege was coupled with conditions which are supposed to have led to its rejection by the Senate: that is, that American vessels should land their return cargoes in the United States only; and, moreover, that they should, during the continuance of the privilege, be precluded from carrying molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa, or cotton, either from those islands or from the U.States, to any other part of the world. Great Britain readily consented to expunge this article from the treaty; and subsequent attempts to arrange the terms of the trade, either by treaty stipulations or concerted legislation, having failed, it has been successively suspended and allowed, according to the varying legislation of the parties.

The important modifications of their Government, ef fected with so much courage and wisdom by the people of France, afford a happy presage of their future course, and has naturally elicited from the kindred feelings of this nation that spontaneous and universal burst of applause in which you have participated. In congratulating you, my fellow-citizens, upon an event so auspicious to the dearest interests of mankind, I do no more than respond to the voice of my country, without transcending, in the slightest degree, that salutary maxim of the illustrious Washington, which enjoins an abstinence from all interference with the internal affairs of other nations. The following are the prominent points which have, in From a people exercising, in the most unlimited degree, later years, separated the two Governments. Besides a the right of self government, and enjoying, as derived restriction, whereby all importations into her colonies in from this proud characteristic, under the favor of heaven, American vessels are confined to our own products carried much of the happiness with which they are blessed; a hence, a restriction to which it does not appear that we people who can point in triumph to their free institutions, have ever objected, a leading object on the part of Great and challenge comparison with the fruits they bear, as Britain has been to prevent us from becoming the carriwell as with the moderation, intelligence, and energy, ers of British West India commodities to any other counwith which they are administered; from such a people, try than our own. On the part of the United States, it the deepest sympathy was to be expected in a struggle has been contended, 1st. That the subject should be refor the sacred principles of liberty, conducted in a spiritgulated by treaty stipulations in preference to separate leevery way worthy of the cause, and crowned by an heroic moderation which has disarmed revolution of its terrors. Notwithstanding the strong assurances which the ma.. whom we so sincerely love and justly admire has given to the world of the high character of the present King of the French, and which, if sustained to the end, will secure to him the proud appellation of Patriot King, it is not in his success, but in that of the great principle which has borne The first point, after having been, for a long time, him to the throne-the paramount authority of the pub-strenuously insisted upon by Great Britain, was given up lic will-that the American people rejoice. by the act of Parliament of July, 1825; all vessels suf fered to trade with the colonies being permitted to clear from thence with any articles which British vessels might export; and proceed to any part of the world, Grest Britain and her dependencies alone excepted. On our

I am happy to inform you that the anticipations which were indulged at the date of my last communication on the subject of our foreign affairs, have been fully realized in several important particulars.

gislation; 2d. That our productions, when imported into the colonies in question, should not be subject to higher duties than the productions of the mother country, or of her other colonial possessions; And, 3d. That our ves sels should be allowed to participate in the circuitous trade between the United States and different parts of the Bri tish dominions.

President's Message.

part, each of the above points had, in succession, been explicitly abandoned in negotiations preceding that of which the result is now announced.

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tain, and concluded in a manner strongly indicative of a sincere desire to cultivate the best relations with the United States. To reciprocate this disposition to the fullest extent of my ability, is a duty which I shall deem it a privilege to discharge.

This arrangement secures to the United States every advantage asked by them, and which the state of the negotiation allowed us to insist upon. The trade will be placed upon a footing decidedly more favorable to this country than any on which it ever stood; and our commerce and navigation will enjoy, in the colonial ports of Great Britain, every privilege allowed to other nations. That the prosperity of the country, so far as it depends on this trade, will be greatly promoted by the new arrange. ment, there can be no doubt. Independently of the more obvious advantages of an open and direct intercourse, its establishment will be attended with other consequences of a higher value. That which has been carried on since the mutual interdict under all the expense and inconvenience unavoidably incident to it, would have been in-ral endeavors have been made to obtain a better state of supportably onerous, had it not been, in a great degree, lightened by concerted evasions in the mode of making the transhipments at what are called the neutral ports. These indirections are inconsistent with the dignity of nations that have so many motives, not only to cherish feelings of mutual friendship, but to maintain such relations as will stimulate their respective citizens and subjects to efforts of direct, open, and honorable competition only and preserve them from the influence of seductive and vitiating circumstances.

Although the result is, itself, the best commentary on the services rendered to his country by our Minister at the court of St. James, it would be doing violence to my feelings were I to dismiss the subject without expressing the very high sense I entertain of the talent and exertion which have been displayed by him on the occasion. The injury to the commerce of the United States resulting from the exclusion of our vessels from the Black sea, and the previous footing of mere sufferance upon which even the limited trade enjoyed by us with Turkey has hitherto been placed, have, for a long time, been a source of much solicitude to this Government; and sevethings. Sensible of the importance of the object, I felt it my duty to leave no proper means unemployed to ac quire for our flag the same privileges that are enjoyed by the principal Powers of Europe. Commissioners were, consequently, appointed, to open a negotiation with the Sublime Porte. Not long after the member of the commission who, went directly from the United States had sailed, the account of the treaty of Adrianople, by which one of the objects in view was supposed to be secured, reached this country. The Black Sea was understood to be opened to us. Under the supposition that this was the case, the additional facilities to be derived from the

were deemed of sufficient importance to require a prosecution of the negotiation as originally contemplated. It was therefore persevered in, and resulted in a treaty, which will be forthwith laid before the Senate.

When your preliminary interposition was asked at the close of the last session, a copy of the instructions under which Mr. McLane has acted, together with the commu-establishment of commercial regulations with the Porte nications which had at that time passed between him and the British Government, was laid before you. Although there has not been any thing in the acts of the two Go. vernments which requires secrecy, it was thought most proper, in the then state of the negotiation, to make that communication a confidential one. So soon, however, as the evidence of execution on the part of Great Britain is received, the whole matter shall be laid before you, when it will be seen that the apprehension which appears to have suggested one of the provisions of the act passed at your last session, that the restoration of the trade in question might be connected with other subjects, and was sought to be obtained at the sacrifice of the public interest in other particulars, was wholly unfounded; and that the change which has taken place in the views of the British Government has been induced by considerations as honorable to both parties, as, I trust, the result willing treaties with the Porte. The most friendly feelings prove beneficial.

This desirable result was, it will be seen, greatly promoted by the liberal and confiding provisions of the act of Congress of the last session, by which our ports were, upon the reception and annunciation by the President of the required assurance on the part of Great Britain, forthwith opened to her vessels, before the arrangement could be carried into effect on her part; pursuing, in this act of prospective legislation, a similar course to that adopted by Great Britain, in abolishing, by her act of Parliament, in 1825, a restriction then existing, and permit ting our vessels to clear from the colonies, on their return voyages, for any foreign country whatever, before British vessels had been relieved from the restriction imposed by our law, of returning directly from the United States to the colonies-a restriction which she required and expected that we should abolish. Upon each occasion, a limited and temporary advantage has been given to the opposite party, but an advantage of no importance in comparison with the restoration of mutual confidence and good feelings, and the ultimate establishment of the trade upon fair principles.

It gives me unfeigned pleasure to assure you that this negotiation has been, throughout, characterised by the most frank and friendly spirit on the part of Great Bri

By its provisions, a free passage is secured, without limitation of time, to the vessels of the United States, to and from the Black Sea,including the navigation thereof; and our trade with Turkey is placed on the footing of the most favored nation. The latter is an arrangement wholly independent of the treaty of Adrianople; and the former derives much value, not only from the increased security which, under any circumstances, it would give to the right in question, but from the fact, ascertained in the course of the negotiation, that, by the construction put upon that treaty by Turkey, the article relating to the passage of the Bosphorus is confined to nations hav

appear to be entertained by the Sultan, and an enlightened disposition is evinced by him to foster the intercourse between the two countries by the most peral arrangements. This disposition it will be our duty and interest to cherish.

Our relations with Russia are of the most stable character. Respect for that Empire, and confidence in its friendship towards the United States, have been so long entertained on our part, and so carefully cherished by the present Emperor and his illustrious predecessor, as to have become incorporated with the public sentiment of the United States. No means will be left unemployed on my part to promote these salutary feelings, and those improvements of which the commercial intercourse between the two countries is susceptible, and which have derived increased importance from our treaty with the Sublime Porte.

I sincerely regret to inform you that our Minister lately commissioned to that Court, on whose distinguished talents and great experience in public affairs I place great reliance, has been compelled, by extreme indisposition, to exercise a privilege, which, in consideration of the extent to which his constitution had been impaired in the public service, was committed to his discretion-of leaving temporarily his post for the advantage of a more ge nial climate.