UNITED STATES-Continued. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, transmitting a Convention and Corres- to the Slave Trade, 30th April, 1824...827 the same subject.......21st May, 1824...847 REPORT of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the of do. on the Commerce and Navigation of The United President.... ...... Great Britain. Convention. Slave Trade. [not ratified]..... London, 13th March, 1824...838 Russia. Convention. Pacific Ocean and N.W. Coast of America, St. Petersburgh, April, 1824...595 Tunis. Convention. Alterations in the Treaty of Peace of 1797.......... Bardo, 24th Feb. 1824...613 and Navigation.... Bogotà, 3d Oct. 1824...782 Washington, 4th August, 1824...600 Ioway Indians. do. .......... do. Quapaw Indians. do...Harrington's, 15th Nov. 1824...607 Choctaw Indians. do. Washington, 20th Jan. 1825...604 Creek Indians. do. Indian Springs. 12th Feb. 1825...610 PROCEEDINGS of the State of South Carolina, respecting the im- November and December, 1824...638 CONFERENCES between the American and British Plenipotentiaries in London,-Slave Trade, &c. Jan. to Mar. 1824...844 CORRESPONDENCE with France, respecting the Claims of American BRITISH AND FOREIGN State Papers. SPEECH of The Lords Commissioners to both Houses of Parliament, on Thursday, February 3, 1825. My Lords, and Gentlemen, WE are commanded by His Majesty to express to you the grati fication which His Majesty derives from the continuance and progressive increase of that Public Prosperity upon which His Majesty congratulated you at the Opening of the last Session of Parliament. There never was a Period in the history of this Country, when all the great Interests of the Nation were at the same time in so thriving a condition, or when a feeling of content and satisfaction was more widely diffused through all Classes of the British People. It is no small addition to the gratification of His Majesty, that Ireland is participating in the general prosperity. The Outrages, for the suppression of which extraordinary powers were confided to His Majesty, have so far ceased as to warrant the suspension of the exercise of those powers in most of the Districts heretofore disturbed. Industry and commercial enterprize are extending themselves in that Part of the United Kingdom. It is therefore the more to be regretted that Associations should exist in Ireland, which have adopted Proceedings irreconcileable with the spirit of the Constitution, and calculated, by exciting alarm, and by exasperating animosities, to endanger the peace of society, and to retard the course of National Improvement. His Majesty relies upon your wisdom to consider, without delay, the means of applying a remedy to this evil. His Majesty further recommends the renewal of the Inquiries instituted last Session into the State of Ireland. His Majesty has seen with regret the interruption of tranquillity. in India, by the unprovoked aggression and extravagant pretensions of the Burmese Government, which rendered hostile operations against that State unavoidable. It is, however, satisfactory to find that none of the other Native Powers have manifested any unfriendly disposition, and that the bravery and conduct displayed by the Forces already employed against the Enemy afford the most favourable prospect of a successful termination of the Contest. B Gentlemen of the House of Commons, His Majesty has directed us to inform you, that the Estimates of the Year will be forthwith laid before you. The state of India, and Circumstances connected with other Parts of His Majesty's Foreign Possessions, will render some augmentation in His Military Establishments indispensable. His Majesty has, however, the sincere gratification of believing, that, notwithstanding the increase of expence arising out of this augmentation, such is the flourishing condition and progressive improvement of the Revenue, that it will still be in your power, without affecting Public Credit, to give additional facilities to the National Industry, and to make a further reduction in the burthens of His People. My Lords and Gentlemen, His Majesty commands us to inform you, that His Majesty continues to receive from His Allies, and generally from all Princes and States, assurances of their unabated desire to maintain and cultivate the relations of Peace with His Majesty, and with Each Other; and that it is His Majesty's constant endeavour to preserve the general tranquillity. The Negociations which have been so long carried on, through His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, between the Emperor of Russia and The Ottoman Porte, have been brought to an amicable issue. His Majesty has directed to be laid before you Copies of Arrangements which have been entered into with the Kingdoms of Denmark and Hanover, for improving the Commercial Intercourse between those States and the United Kingdom. A Treaty, having for its object the more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade, has been concluded between His Majesty and the King of Sweden; a Copy of which Treaty (as soon as the Ratifications thereof shall have been exchanged) His Majesty has directed to be laid before you. Some difficulties have arisen with respect to the Ratification of the Treaty for the same object, which was negociated last Year between His Majesty and The United States of America. These difficulties however, His Majesty trusts, will not finally impede the conclusion of so beneficial an arrangement. In conformity with the declarations which have been repeatedly made by His Majesty, His Majesty has taken measures for confirming by Treaties, the Commercial Relations already subsisting between this. Kingdom and those Countries of America which appear to have established their separation from Spain. So soon as these Treaties shall be completed, His Majesty will direct Copies of them to be laid before you. His Majesty commands us not to conclude without congratulating you upon the continued improvement in the state of the Agricultural Interest, the solid foundation of our National Prosperity; nor without informing you, that evident advantage has been derived from the relief which you have recently given to Commerce, by the removal of inconvenient restrictions. His Majesty recommends to you to persevere (as circumstances may allow) in the removal of similar restrictions; and His Majesty directs us to assure you, that you may rely upon His Majesty's cordial cooperation in fostering and extending that Commerce, which, whilst it is, under the Blessing of Providence, a main source of strength and power to this Country, contributes in no less a degree to the happiness and civilization of Mankind. TREATY between His Britannick Majesty and His Majesty The King of Sweden and Norway, for preventing their Subjects from engaging in any Traffick in Slaves.—Signed at Stockholm, November 6, 1824. (Presented to Parliament May 16, 1825.) In the Name of the Most Holy and Au Nom de la Très Sainte et InUndivided Trinity. His Majesty The King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty The King of Sweden and Norway, animated by a mutual desire to adopt the most effectual measures for putting a stop to the carrying on of the Slave Trade by Their respective Subjects, and for preventing Their respective Flags from being employed by other Nations, who may be engaged therein, as a protection to so odious a Traffick, and desiring, for this purpose, to give a further developement to the principle laid down by the Internal Legislation of the two Countries, and mutually acknowledged, as well by the 4th Paragraph of the Separate Article of the Treaty concluded at Stockholm on the 3rd day of March 1813, as by the Declaration signed at Vienna on the 8th day divisible Trinité. Sa Majesté Le Roi du Royaume Uni de La Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et Sa Majesté Le Roi de Suède et de Norvège, animées d'un désir mutuel d'adopter les mesures les plus efficaces pour empêcher le Commerce des Esclaves par Leurs Sujets respectifs, et prévenir que Leurs Pavillons respectifs ne soient employés par d'autres Nations, qui s'y trouveraient engagées, pour protéger un trafic aussi odieux, et voulant, à cet effet, donner un développement ultérieur au principe posé par la Législation Intérieure des deux Pays, et reconnu des deux côtés, tant par le Paragraphe 4 de l'Article Séparé du Traité conclu à Stockholm le 3 Mars 1813, que par la Déclaration signée à Vienne le 8 Février 1815, Leurs dites Majestés ont résolu de procéder à la conclusion d'un Traité Spécial pour of February 1815,-Their said Majesties have resolved to proceed to the conclusion of a Special Treaty, for the attainment of this salutary object, and have, therefore, named as Plenipotentiaries, ad hoc,-His Majesty The King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, The Right Honourable Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Major-General, Colonel Commandant of the First Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His said Majesty, to His Majesty The King of Sweden and Norway;-and His Majesty The King of Sweden and Norway, the Sieur Gustavus, Count de Wetterstedt, His Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs, Knight Commander of His Orders, Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of the first Class, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Austria, one of the Eighteen of the Swedish Academy;-who, having changed their respective Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following Articles: ex I. The Laws of Sweden and Norway, from the remotest time, never having recognized the existence of Slavery, under any form whatever, and the Slave Trade being comprehended in that category, already more specially ex atteindre ce but salutaire, et ont nommé, à cet effet, des Plénipotentiaires, savoir, Sa Majesté Le Roi du Royaume Uni de La Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, Le Très Honorable Chevalier Benjamin Bloomfield, Conseiller de Sa Majesté Britannique en Son Conseil Privé, Général Major des Armées, et Colonel en Chef du Premier Bataillon du Régiment d'Artillerie de Sa dite Majesté, Chevalier Grand Croix du Très Honorable Ordre du Bain, Grand Croix de l'Ordre Royal Guelphique de Hannovre, et Envoyé Extraordinaire et Ministre Plénipotentiaire de Sa dite Majesté, près Sa Majesté Le Roi de Suède et de Norvège;-et Sa Majesté Le Roi de Suède et de Norvége, le Sieur Gustave Comte de Wetterstedt, Son Ministre d'Etat et des Affaires Etrangères, Chevalier Commandeur de Ses Ordres, Chevalier de l'Ordre de l'Aigle Rouge de Prusse de la Première Classe, Grand Croix de l'Ordre de Léopold d'Autriche, un des Dix-Huit de l'Académie Suedoise; - lesquels, après avoir échangé leurs Pleins-pouvoirs respectifs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, sont convenus des Articles suivants : I. Les Loix de la Suède et de la Norvège, ayant, depuis un tems immémorial, ignoré jusqu'à l'existence de l'Esclavage, sous quelque forme qu'il se présentât, et la Traite des Nègres ayant été comprise dans cette même caté |