gold thread; the button holes corresponding with the width of the embroidery, which is not to exceed two inches in any part. Vest and small clothes of white, and navy buttons; the former to have ten in front, and four under each pocket flap. With this dress, a cocked hat, small sword, and shoes and buckles are to be worn. The hat to be furnished with gold loop, gold tassels, and black cocade, with gold eagle in the centre; added to which, it is to be understood that the mountings of the sword, and shoe and knee buckles, are to be gold, otherwise gilt. FOREIGN MINISTERS, &C. IN THE UNITED STATES. During the past year, the following changes have occurred in the Foreigu Missions to the United States : Commandeur Torlade D'Azambuja, Chargé d'Affaires from Portugal has returned home, and left the mission from that country vacant. Baron Roenne, has been accredited Chargé d'Affaires from Prussia, and fills the vacancy in this mission of last year. Chevalier S. Lorich, Consul General from Sweden, has been appointed Chargé d'Affaires, ad inlerim, in the absence of Chevalier Ankarloo. M. Domingo Acosta, has been accredited as Consul General and Chargé d'Affaires from New Granada, his former appointment having been from Colombia. D. Ca valcanti d'Albuquerque, has been appointed Chargé d'Affaires from Brazil: and Mr. Manuel Carvallo, Chargé d'Affaires from Chile. For the protection of the persons of foreign ministers, by the act of 30th April, 1790, it is provided that if any writ or process shall at any time be sued forth or prosecuted by any person or persons, in any of the] courts of the United States, or in any courts of a particular State, or by any judge or justice therein, respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador, or other public minister of any foreign prince or state, authorized and received as such by the President of the United States, or any domestic, or domestic servant, of any such ambassador or other public minister, may be arrested or imprisoned, or his, or their goods or chattels be distrained, seized, or attached, such writ or process shall be deemed and adjudged as utterly null and void, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, whatsoever. In case any person or persons shall sue forth or prosecute any such writ or process, such person or persons, and all attorneys or solicitors prosecuting or soliciting in such case, and all officers executing any such writ or process, being thereof convicted, shall be deemed violators of the aws of nations and disturbers of the public repose, and imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined at the discretion of the court. But no citizen or inhabitant of the United States, who shall have contracted debts prior to his entering into the service of any ambassador or other public minister, which debts shall be still due and unpaid, shall have, take, or receive, any benefit of this act; nor shall any person be proceeded against by virtue of this act, for having arrested or sued any other domestic servant of any ambassador or other public minister, unless the name of such servant be first registered in the office of the Secretary of State, and by such Secretary transmitted to the Marshal of the District of Columbia, who shall, upon receipt thereof, affix the same in some public place in his office, whereto all persons may resort and take copies without fee or reward. Ministers, &c., of Foreign Powers in the United States. France. M. Serurier, Envoy Extraordinary James Moodie, do. Com. Agent, Boston. Maurice d'Hauterive, Consul, Phil'a M. Henri, Com. Agent, Baltimore do. Charleston. Russia do. Darien. do. Pensacola. do. Key West. do. Mobile. Baron de Krudener, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary Count Choiseuil, V. C. Charleston. George Krehmer, First Secretary of do. Norfolk M. Deseze, Delame de Villeret, do. Savannah. Legation. Alexander Chvostoff, Second do. A. Evstahieff, Con. Gen N. York. Count de la Porte, Vice Consul, J. Prince, Agent, Salem. Tallahassee. E. Mayo, do. Portland. Martin Francois Armand Saillard, J. G. Bogart, Vice Consul, N. York. Great Britain. Right Hon. Sir Charles R. Vaughan, E. Hollander, do. G. C. H. Envoy Extraordinary do. Portsmouth. Spain. New Orleans. Chevalier Francisco Tacon, Envoy Francisco de Paula Quadrado, Se- Juan Bautiste Bernabeu, Consul Francisco Hernandez de Nogues, Don Thomas Amory Deblois, Vice Don Antonio G. Vega, do. Boston. New Orleans. Pedro de Alba, V. Cons Pensacola. do. Baltimore. John Notlitt, Consul, Key West. Portugal. P. K. Dichinson, Con. Wilmington. M. Januario Cardoso de Freitas, Wm. Crabtree, jr. do. Savannah." Philip Marrett, esq. V. Con. Boston. Christan Mayer, Con. Gen. Balt're. Charles Aug Davis, Con. General. do. Savannah. Conard W. Faber, Consul. Chevalier Ankarloo, Chargé d'Af Horace C Camack, do. N. Orleans William H. Allen, do. St. Augustine. Chevalier S. Lorich, Con. General, and Chargé d'Affaires, ad int. Austria. Baron de Lederer, Consul General. John Vaughan, Con. Philadelphia. Baron Roenne, Chargé d'Affaires. C. V. Buck, Con. General, Phil'a. do. Baltimore. E. M. A. Martini, Chargé d'Affaires F. Christ Graf, do. Baltimore. J. C. Zimmerman, Consul N. York. A. C. Cazenove, do. Alexandria. J. J. Hagewerft, do. Charleston. A. C. Cazenove, Jacob Wulff, Charles Knorre, do. Boston. Bremen. Eleazer Crabtree, Cons. Savannah. A Halbach, Consul, Philadelphia. Steen Bille, Chargé d'Affaires. do. Baltimore. do. Alexandria. Baron D. Behr, Minister Resident. William Power Blodget, Vice Con- John Clisbe, Consul, New Haven. A. O. Hammand, Cons. Charlest'n.JJavier de Madina, V. C. New York. Win. Read, Vice Consul, Philadel'a. Talesforo Orea, do. Philadelphia. Emmanuele Valdor, do. Baltimore. Richard W. Gill, do. Baltimore. Luca Palmieri, do. Philadel'a. Thos. Middleton, do. Charleston. Antonio, Pommar, do. Norfolk. John Myers, do. Norfolk. Hipholite Gally, do N.Orleans. Robert Goodwin, do. Savannah. A Garibaldi, Con Gen Philadelphia, S. V. Rouland, Consul, New York. Y. F Brette, Y. Auze, do. Baltimore. do. Norfolk. do Savannah. do. Mobile. Thomas Roger, V Cons Charleston. Peter Amedee Hargons, ad int. Con sul General, Trenton. T.J Bixouard, V. Cons. Baltimore. W. H. Aspinwall, V. Con. N. York Theodore Nicolet. Con. N Orleans. Joaquin Maria de Castillo, Chargé Estanislao Cuesta, Secretary. Cavalcanti D Albuquerque, Manoel Guilherme dos Reis, Consul Manuel Carvallo, Chargé d'Affaires. Hanseatic Towns Lewis Trapman, Consul, Charleston. Casper Mayer, do New York. H F. Von Lenyerke, do. Philadel’a. Edward Cabot, V. Consul, Boston. Thomas Searle, do. Boston James Treat, do. New York. A. C. Cazenove, do. Alexandria. George Follin, do Philadelphia. Fred, Frey, do N Orleans. Luke Tiernan, do. Baltimore. Saxe Weimar. New York. R W. Cogdell, Consul, Charleston. Fred. Aug. Mensch, Consul General, Heury Dagget, Consul, Mobile. New Granada. Augustus W. Hupeden, Consul, N. Oldenburg. Otto Heinrich Miessegaes, Consul, Leon Herckenrath, do. Charleston. Augustus Heikscher, Con. for U. S. C. F. Hoyer, Consul, New York. THE ARMY. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. WAR DEPARTMENT, November 27, 1824. To the President of the United States: SIR, The annual period for submitting to you a stateinent of the proceedings of this department having arrived, I have the honor, in conformity with your instructions, to lay before you an abstract of its operations, together with the reports and estimates from the various bureaus, exhibiting the condition of those branches of the public service connected with its administration. Since my last annual report, no military movement of any importance, with the exception of the expedition of the regiment of dragoons, has been rendered necessary. The reports and information, which have reached the department respecting the situation of the army, are highly gratifying In its dicipline, its moral character, and the general performance of its duties, the government and the country have every reason to be satisfied with its condition and prospects. As a safeguard for the froutiers, as a school of practical instruction, as a depository of military information, and as the means of preparing and providing in peace for the exigencies of war, the present military establishment has fully answered the objects of its organization and support. And it is but an act of justice to state, that, in all the essential requisites of capacity and conduct, the officers of the American army do honor to themselves and their country. It is known to you that some of the Western tribes of Indians, roaming through the extensive prairies west of Arkansas and Missouri, particularly the Camanches and Kiowas, have, for some years, interrupted the peace of that quarter, by predatory attacks upon our citizens, and upon the indigenous and emigrant Indians, whom we are under obligations to protect. Their war parties have annoyed our citizens, in their intercourse with the Mexican States, and have rendered the communication difficult and hazardous. It became necessary to put a stop to this state of things, either by amicable representations, or by force. Those remote tribes have little knowledge of the strength of the United States,] or of their own relative weakness; and it was hoped that the display of a respectable military force for the first time, in their country, would satisfy them that further hostilities would lead to their destruction. The dragoons, being peculiarly adapted to this service, were ordered to penetrate into that region, and to endeavor, by peaceable remonstrances, to establish permanent tranquillity; and, if these should fail, to repel any hostile demonstrations which might be made. Fortunately, the efforts to introduce amicable relations were successful, and the object of the expedition was obtained, without a single act of hostility. Colonel Dodge, who led the expedition, and his whole command, appear to have performed their duties in the most satisfactory manner; and they encountered with firmness the privations incident to the harrassing service upon which they were ordered. It is to be regretted that the prevalence of sickness prevented the whole regiment from joining in this duty, as the same zeal for the public interest pervaded the whole. That sickness |