E. Statement of receipts and payments at the treasury of the United Salt works in the Illinois territory, Fines, penalties, and forfeitures, Consular receipts under act of April 14, 1792, Repayments, Loan, 7,910 25 80 95 1,161 14 52 50 57,565 59 5,847,212 50 Dollars 20,729,977 76 Payments on the following accounts, viz.: Civil list proper, Light house establishment, 816,655 13 131,420 04 Grants and miscellaneous claims, 22,073 58 Third census, Prize money for the navy pension fund, Consular receipts, under act of April 14, 1792, Relief of the citizens of Venezuela, Survey of the coast of the United States, 68,799 11 1,161 14 478 00 47,840 73 13,308 68 Trading houses with the Indians, Better accommodation of the general post-office, &c. 11,853 91 Prisoners of war, Road from Cumberland to the Ohio, 5,000 00 16,870 00 38,020 75 Balance in the treasury, subject to warrant, Sep tember 30, 1812, 2,361,652 69 Dollars 20,729,977 76 Ee. Statement of payments made at the Treasury, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1812, and during the months of October and November, 1812, for the several branches of expenditure in the War and Navy departments. Dollars, 8,001,275 2,533,108 33 Balance in the hands of the Treasurer, on ac count of the war department, 1st Oct. 1811, S 214,986 93 760,331 13 Balance in the hands of the Treasurer, on ac count of the navy department, 1st Oct. 1811, $ 116,847 32 ditto, ditto, 1st Oct. 1812, 221,839 32 13th CONGRESS-1st SESSION. Message from the President of the United States, to the two houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirteenth Congress. Fellow citizens of the senate and of the house of representatives, At an early day after the close of the last session of congress, an offer was formally communicated from his imperial majesty, the emperor of Russia, of his mediation, as the common friend of the United States and Great Britain, for the purpose of facilitating a peace between them. The high character of the emperor Alexander being a satisfactory pledge for the sincerity and impartiality of his offer, it was immediately accepted; and as a further proof of the disposition on the part of the United States, to meet their adversary in honourable experiments for terminating the war, it was determined to avoid intermediate delays, incident to the distance of the parties, by a definitive provision for the contemplated negotiation. Three of our eminent oitizens were accordingly commissioned with the requisite powers to conclude a treaty of peace with persons clothed with like powers on the part of Great Britain. They are authorized also to enter into such conventional regulations of the commerce between the two countries, as may be mutually advantageous. The two envoys who were in the United States at the time of their appointment, have proceeded to join their colleague already at St. Petersburg. The envoys have received another commission, authorizing them to conclude with Russia a treaty of commerce, with a view to strengthen the amicable relations, and improve the beneficial intercourse between the two countries. The issue of this friendly interposition of the Russian emperor, and this pacific manifestation on the part of the United States, time only can decide. That the sentiments of Great Britain towards that sovereign will have produced an acceptance of his offered mediation, must be presumed. That no adequate motives exist to prefer a continuance of war with the United States, to the terms on which they are willing to close it, is certain. The British cabinet also must be sensible that, with respect to the important question of impressment, on which the war so essentially turns, a search for, or seizure of British persons or property on board neutral vessels on the high |