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war, with a celerity so unexampled 

 and with a slaughter of the enemy 

 so disproportionate to the loss in 

 the Hornet, as to claim for the 

 conquerors the highest praise, and 

 the full recompence provided by 

 Congress in preceding cases. Our 

 public ships of war in general, as 

 well as the private armed vessels, 

 have continued also their activity 

 and success against the commerce 

 of the enemy, and by their vigi- 

 lance and address have greatly 

 frustrated the efforts of the hostile 

 squadrons distributed along our 

 coasts to intercept them in re- 

 turning into port, and resuming 

 their cruises. The augmentation 

 of our naval force, as authorised at 

 the last session of Congress, is in 

 progress. On the lakes our su- 

 periority is near at hand, where it 

 is not already established. 



" The event of the campaign, 

 so far as they are known to us, 

 furnish matter of congratulation, 

 and show, that under a wise or- 

 ganization and efficient direction, 

 the army is destined to a glory 

 not less brilliant than that which 

 already encircles the navy. The 

 attack and capture of York is, in 

 that quarter, a presage of future 

 and greater victories, — while on 

 the western frontiers, the issue of 

 the late siege of Fort Meigs leaves 

 nothing to regret but a single act 

 of inconsiderate valour. 



" The sudden death of the dis- 

 tinguished citizen who represent- 

 ed the United States in France, 

 without any special arrangements 

 by him for such a contingency, 

 has left us without the expected 

 sequel to his last communications ; 

 nor has the French government 

 taken any measures for bringing 

 the depending negociations to a 



conclusion through its Representa- 

 tive in the United States. This 

 failure adds to delays before so un- 

 usually spun out. A successor to 

 our departed minister has been ap- 

 pointed, and is ready to proceed 

 on his mission. The course which 

 he will pursue in fulfilling it, is 

 that prescribed by a steady regard 

 to the true interests of the Unit- 

 ed States, which equally avoids 

 an abandonment of their just de- 

 mands, and a connection of their 

 features with the system of other 

 Powers. 



" The receipts into the Trea- 

 sury from the 1st of October to the 

 31st of March last, including the 

 sums received on account of Trea- 

 sury notes, and of the loans autho- 

 rised by the Acts of the last and 

 the preceding session of Congress, 

 have amounted to 15,412,000 dol- 

 lars. The expenditures during 

 the same period amounted to 

 15,920,000, and left in the Trea- 

 sury on the 1st of April 1,857,000 

 dollars. The loan of 16,000.000 

 of dollars, authorised by the act of 

 the 8th of February last, has beea 

 contracted for. Of that sum more 

 than a inillion of dollars had been 

 paid into the Treasury prior to the 

 1st of April, and formed apart of the 

 receipts as above stated. The re- 

 mainder of that loan, amounting 

 to near 15,000,000 of dollars, 

 with the sum of 5,000,000 of dol- 

 lars authorized to be issued in 

 Treasury notes, and the estimated 

 receipts from the customs, and the 

 sales of public lands, amounting to 

 9,000,000 dollars, and making in 

 tile whole 29,300,000 dollars, to be 

 received during the last nine months 

 of the present year, will be necessary 

 to meet the expendituresalready au- 

 thorized, and the engagements con- 



