By official report from the Treasury department, it was ascertained, that there remained in the United States' treasury, at the close of the year 1823, a surplus of above nine millions of dollars, waiting an appropriation on the part of Congress: which has taken place; and it goes towards reducing the Public debt.

It appears likewise, that the nation's Export, for the twelve months which expired on the 30th Sept. 1823, amounted to, Doll. 74,699,030. Exceeding, consequently, according to custom-house entries, the export of the year before, by

Doll. 2,538,749.

The domestic portion of it however, had not increased, but was something less than that of the year immediately preceding.

I CANNOT better conclude. than-I should say, I cannot, in any other way, so well conclude, as by inserting the following official article, to serve as a memento; it being so admirably adapted to excite the profoundest reflection upon the attitude and present concerns of the nation.

The article is from the President of the United States, written lately on the occasion of his finding it expedient to urge the Senate to ratify a convention, negotiated with Great Britian, for the suppression of lawless attempts to carry on the Slave-trade. On which occasion, the President made the following highly interesting communication:

"We have at this moment pending with Great Britain, sundry other negotiations, intimately connected with the welfare and even the peace of our Union. In one of these, nearly a third part of the territory of the State of Maine is in contestation. In another, the navigation of the St. Lawrence, the admission of Consuls into the British Islands, and a system of

commercial intercourse between the United States and all the British possessions in this hemisphere, are subjects of discussion. In a third, our territorial and other rights upon the N. W. coast, are to be adjusted; while a negotiation on the same interest is opened with Russia. In a fourth, all the most important controvertible points of maritime-law in time of war are brought under consideration: And in a fifth, the whole system of South American concerns, connected with a general recognition of South American independence, may again, from hour to hour, become, as it has already been, an object of concerted operations of the highest interest to both nations, and to the peace of the world."

With Russia, our difference as to the N. W. coast, is now, according to report, adjusted satisfactorily. Philadelphia, June, 1824.

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ERE the foregoing pages have all passed through the press, and got into print, Congress, at Washington, have opened their 36th Federal session, and the President's message. on the occasion, being this day published in Philadelphia, I cannot deny myself an advantage which the opportunity seems to offer; I cannot refrain from thinking that a transcript of the message may be considered in the light of a very suitable and happy final appendage, to grace what will be found to precede; and therefore, the message, at full length, is here added.

I do not think it at all needful to make a single remark upon its various contents, but leave with my respected readers to decide, how far some of the points of my production, which possibly might have been thought to be involved in a degree of obscurity, are now elucidated and made clear; how far some other things have, or have not, the advantage of now receiving corroboration and authenticity.

Philadelphia, Dec. 9, 1824.

THE AUTHOR.

THE

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

Fellow Citizens of the Senate,

and of the House of Representatives—

THE view which I have now to present to you of our affairs, foreign and domestic, realizes the most sanguine anticipations which have been entertained, of the public prosperity. If we look to the whole, our growth, as a nation, continues to be rapid beyond example. if to the States, which compose it, the same gratifying spectacle is exhibited. Our expansion over the vast territory within our limits, has been great, wtthout indicating any decline in those sections from which the emigration has been most conspicuous. We have daily gained strength, by a native population, in every quarter: a population devoted to our happy system of government, and cherishing the bond of union with fraternal affection. Experience has already shown, that the difference of climate, and of industry proceeding from that cause, inseparable from