gentlemen, I can never be sufficiently grate- | right position with greater steadiness than I ful, and I beg them to accept of my best can at present command in mine. (Cheers thanks. To our worthy chairman, and to all and laughter). You are all aware that the the electors who have supported me, I like-present Parliament, beyond all previous ones, wise beg to offer my most grateful thanks. 1 is characterized by the number and variety of fervently trust I shall be found worthy of the the pledged which its members have come confidence you have reposed in me; but, under. Different parliaments have, in former should it ever unfortunately prove otherwise, times, and in our own, been called by dif you have the remedy in your own hands; for ferent names. We have heard of the Long I have already said, and I now solemnly re- Parliament-the Rump-the Barebones Parpeat my pledge, that whenever a decided ma-liament. Conservative wit had named the jority of my constituents shall deliberately last Parliament the House of Delegates. The make it known to me that I no longer enjoy present might be called the Parliament of the their confidence, that moment I shall divest pledged. (Cheers). If we do not get good and myself of the trust, and replace it in the hands cheap government, it will not be for want of of those from whom I received it. (Great pleges and professions. Whether, and how cheering). Gentlemen, I have detained you far, those pledges will be redeemed, and those too long; but, I must mention a curious co-professions acted upon, is another and a difincidence which has now occurred, and which you will allow me to detail to you. In December, 1819, Sheriff L' Amy, hoping, perhaps, to make my shoulders a stepping-stone to a certain bench, to which we know he would have added considerable weight, came over here, post haste, to examine as to the proceedings at the Magdalen Yard; and, in consequence, I was cited to appear before a set of prejudiced judges and a packed jury, for the atrocious crime of having said that we needed reform; that cutting of throats was murder, and that Castlereagh was a knave, and old Sidmouth a fool. (Cheers and laughter). My counsel assured me I had spoken too freely and honestly against myself, and that there was no chance for me but to move off. (Cheering and laughter). I took the advice, thinking it preferable to visit the hospitable shores of France at my own expense, rather than subject my country to the expense of transporting me to the inhospitable shores of Botany Bay. (Continued cheering). After three years' absence, I got leave from that consummate statesman, Sir Robert Peel, to return to my family and my home. (Cheers). On the 24. of December, 1819, I was proclaimed at the Cross of Edinburgh, a rebel and an outlaw. Now, mark the difference! On the same day of December, 1832, I was, by the same Sheriff L'Amy, proclaimed the chosen representative of the people of Dundee. (Immense cheering). This is passing strange, but it is no less true; and you now see the outlaw of 1819 transformed in 1832 into the representative of this great and flourishing community. I conclude by giving you "The electors of Dundee." (Tremendous cheering).

Bailie SYMON (croupier) being called on for a toast, proceeded to address the meeting from the floor; but, in compliance with the repeated calls from the meeting, he stood upon his chair, although, he said, it was a dangerous elevation. His situation, however, was not so critical as that of those to whom the chairman had alluded,-namely, Lord Althorp, and that proud and pert politician, Mr. Stanley. (Cheers). In asking you to drink to the first reformed House of Commons, it will be with the hope that they will be able to maintain a

ferent thing. (Laughter and cheering). They are pledged to abolish all taxes that press upon productive industry, restrictions on trade, all monopolies, whether of corn or of cash-of tithes or of tea, colonial or corporate. (Cheers) They are pledged to sweep away all sinecures, useless places, and unmerited pensions. They are pledged-but it would take up too much time to enumerate all the measures to which they are pledged. They knew them all as well as he did himself. (Cheering). He would only name one more—the last, but not the least, they are pledged to shorten the duration of their own existence, so that a better name, perhaps, than the Parliament of the pledged, would be the Parliament of the Destructives. (Great cheering and laughter). Our ancient political laudmarks had been swept away by the tide of reform. Instead of Whig and Tory, we have now Reformer and Anti-Reformer, Conservative and Destructive. Even Radical has given way to the last epi thet; and for his part he had no objection to the change. (Laughter and cheers). Byron somewhere says, "Now for a good old gentlemanly vice;" and Destructive exactly answers that description. (Laughter). In former times, if you had told a gentleman that he had raised himself through any other means than his destructive propensities, he would have been highly offended. If you had said anything of his being indebted to trade or commerce for his rise in society, he would have taken it as a very gross insult. Nothing in those days entitled a man to be considered as a gentleman, but murder, rape, and robbery, by wholesale. (Much laughter). In our day, matters are mightily changed. We have witnessed a gentleman resting his claims to your regard as a public man, solely on the ground of a struggle about hemp-(laughter)—a commodity sometimes useful too, in destructive operations. (Continued laughter). He appreciated the endeavours of any individual in such a praiseworthy object; but, in the case referred to, there was another who disputed the merit of bringing the question to a successful issue. We shall leave them to settle it betwixt them-(laughter)-and return to contrast our own with ancient times. Who

His

AMERICAN PRESIDENT.

Message to the Congress, at the Opening of the Session, 5. December, 1832.

Fellow Citizens of the Senate,

and House of Representatives,

will now (in this country at least) embark in a crusade to establish "the right divine of kings to govern wrong?" who will risk life and limb for lawn sleeves, to maintain them in that place where they ought not to be, or peril existence to uphold hereditary incurables? (Loud cheering). Instead of such pernicious politicians, we have now a set of It gives me pleasure to congratulate you on stand-still politicians, who are sufficiently your return to the seat of Government for the mischievous in their way. The Althorps and purpose of discharging your duties to the Stanleys may stand still if they can. (Laugh- people of the United States. Although the ter). They will soon be able to tell if this pestilence which had traversed the old world be possible. Let them take care that, in has entered our limits and extended its ravages settling themselves in opposition to the curover much of our land, it has pleased Almighty rent of events, they be not, together with God to mitigate its severity, and lessen the Dame Partington, mops and all, swept number of its victims compared with those =away by the great tide of human improvement who have fallen in most other countries over -(loud cheering) -"with all the, lumber which it has spread its terrors. Notwithstandof a thousand years." (Continued cheering). ing this visitation, our country presents on Even the "muckle black Deil" himself will every side marks of prosperity and happiness lend a helping hand in this work of destruc- unequalled perhaps in any other portion of tion which Conservatives think so much to his the world. If we fully appreciate our commind. "He will dance awa' wi' the excise- parative condition, existing causes of disman." He's not "awa' wi'm" yet; but he content will appear unworthy of attention, has nearly got him on his back. (Loud cheers and with hearts of thank fulness to that Divine and laughter). In illustration of his (Mr. Being who has filled our cup of prosperity, Symon's, not the Deil's) views, he would refer we shall feel our resolution strengthened to to an old building or buildings, in progress preserve and hand down to posterity that of dilapidation, opposite their town house, liberty and that union which we have rewhich they saw so fearfully packed with ceived from our fathers, and which constitute human beings on the day of nomination. the sources and the shield of all our blessings. They all knew the object which the authoriThe relations of our country continue to ties had in view; that it was to effect present the same picture of amicable intera change for the better in the internal cha-course that I had the satisfaction to hold up racter of our ancient and venerable town. to your view at the opening of your last sesSome there might be who would look back with regret on the destruction of this once excellent hotel, and to the days of auld town council dinners-of the feasts of Presbyteries and of all the good (for nothing) things that are gone-and for ever. (Cheers and laughter). "Fat headed men who sleep o' nights," would doubtless feel their bowels yearn again for the flesh pots of their bondage. But the intelligent looked beyond objects so selfish and so servile. They saw, in the work of destruction, the commencement of a great, a beneficial, and a profitable chauge. It was thus that he would have Parliament to deal with the obstacles standing in the way of reform. (Cheers). It was thus that he would have them, by the sweeping away of rottenness and corruption, and the removal of weakness and decay, to open up a splendid career of improvement, and prepare a glorious way for the people. (Great cheering). He concluded by proposing, “Our first reformed House of Commons; may its labours be honest, enlightened, and effective."

sion. The same friendly professions, the same desire to participate in our flourishing commerce, the same disposition to refrain from resenting injuries unintentionally offered, are, with a few exceptions, evinced by all nations with whom we have any intercourse. This desirable state of things may be mainly ascribed to our undeviating practice of the rule which has long guided our national policyto require no exclusive privileges in commerce, and to grant none. It is daily producing its beneficial effect in the respect shown to our flag, the protection of our citizens and property abroad, aud in the increase of our navigation and the extension of our mercantile operations. The returns which have been made out since we last met will show an increase during the last preceding year of more than 80,000 tons in our shipping, and of nearly 40,000,000 of dollars in the aggregate of our imports and exports.

Nor have we less reason to felicitate ourselves on the position of our political than of our commercial concerns. They remain in the state in which they were when I last addressed you a state of prosperity and peace, the effect of a wise attention to the parting advice of the reverend father of his country on this subject, condensed into a maxim for the use of posterity by one of his most distinguished successors to cultivate free commerce and honest friendship with all nations, and to make entangling alliances with none.

A strict adherence to this policy has kept us | and advised me to open a further negotiation, aloof from the perplexing questions that now the proposition was immediately made to the agitate the European world, and have more British Government, but the circumstances than once deluged those countries with blood. to which I have alluded have hitherto preShould these scenes unfortunately recur, the vented any answer being given to the overture, parties to the contest may count on a faithful Early attention, however, has been promised performance of the duties incumbent on us as to the subject, and every effort on my part a neutral nation, and our own citizens may will be made for a satisfactory settlement of equally rely on the firm assertion of their] this question, interesting to the Union geneneutral rights. rally, au 1 particularly so to one of its members.

With the nation that was our earliest friend and ally in the infancy of our political existence the most friendly relations have subsisted through the late revolutions of Government, and, from the events of the last, promise a permanent duration. It has made an approximation in some of its political institutions to our own, and raised a monarch to the throne who preserves, it is said, a friendly recollection of the period during which he acquired among our citizens the high consideration that could then have been produced by his personal qualifications alone.

The claims of our citizens on Spain are not yet acknowledged. On a closer investigation of them than appears to have heretofore taken place, it was discovered that some of those demands, however strong they might be upon the equity of that Government, were not such as could be made the subject of national interference; and, faithful to the principle of asking nothing but was clearly right, additional instructions have been sent to modify our demands, so as to embrace those only on which, according to the laws of nations, we had a strict right to insist. An inevitable delay in procuring the documents necessary for this review of the merits of these claims retarded this operation, until an unfortunate malady which has afflicted his Catholic Ma

Our commerce with that nation is gradually assuming a mutually beneficial character and the adjustment of the claims of our citizens has removed the only obstacle there was to an intercourse not only lucrative but productive of literary and scientific improve-jesty, prevented an examination of them.

ment.

Being now for the first time presented in au unexceptionable form, it is confidently hoped the application will be successful.

I have the satisfaction to inform you that the application I directed to be made for the delivery of a part of the archives of Florida, which had been carried to the Havannah, has produced a royal order for their delivery, and that measures have been taken to procure its execution.

From Great Britain I have the satisfaction to inform you that I continue to receive assurances of the most amicable disposition, which have on my part, on all proper occasions, been promptly and sincerely reciprocated. The attention of that Government has latterly been so much engrossed by matters of a deeply interesting domestic character, that we could not press upou it the renewal of negotiations which had been unfortunately broken off by the By the report of the Secretary of State, comunexpected recall of our Minister, who had municated to you on the 23. of June last, you are commenced them with some hopes of success. informed of the conditional reduction obtainMy great object was the settlement of ques-ed by the Minister of the United States at Mations which, though now dormant, might drid of the duties on tonnage levied on Amehereafter be revived under circumstances rican shipping in the ports of Spain. The which would endanger the good understand-condition of that reduction having been coming which it is the interest of both parties to preserve inviolate, cemented, as it is, by a community of language, manners and social habits, and by the high obligations we owe to our British ancestors for many of our most valuable institutions, and for that system of representative government which has enabled us to preserve and improve them.

The question of our north-eastern boundary still remains unsettled. In my last annual message I explained to you the situation in which I found that business on my coming into office, and the measures I thought it my duty to pursue for asserting the rights of the United States before the Sovereign who had been chosen. by my predecessor to determine the question, and also the manner in which he had disposed of it. A special message to the Senate in their executive capacity, afterwards brought before them the question, whether they would advise a submission to the opinion of the sovereign arbiter. That body having considered the award as not obligatory,

plied with on our part, by the act passed on the 13. of July last, I have the satisfaction to inform you that our ships now pay no higher nor other duties in the continental ports of Spain, than are levied on their national vessels.

The demands against Portugal for illegal captures in the blockade of Terceira, have been allowed to the full amount of the accounts presented by the claimants, and payment was promised to be made in three instalments. The first of these have been paid-the second, although due, had not, at the date of our advices, been received, owing, it was alleged, to embarrassments in the finances, consequeat on the civil war in which that nation is engaged.

The payments stipulated by the convention with Denmark have been punctually made, and the amount is ready for distribution among the claimants as soon as the board now sitting shall have performed their functions.

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I regret that by the last advices from our Charge d'Affairs at Naples, that Government had still delayed the satisfaction due to our citizens; but at that date the effect of the last instructions was not known. Dispatches from thence are hourly expected, and the result will be communicated to you without delay.

With the rest of Europe our relations, political and commercial, remain unchanged. Negotiations are going on to put on a permanent basis the liberal system of commerce now carried on between us and the empire of Russia. The treaty concluded with Austria is executed by his Imperial Majesty with the most perfect good faith, and as we have no diplomatic agent at his court, he personally inquired into and corrected a proceeding of some of his subaltern officers to the injury of our consul in one of his ports.

Our treaty with the Sublime Porte is producing its effects on our commerce. New markets are open for our commodities, and a more extensive range for the employment of our ships. A slight augmentation of the duties on our commerce inconsistent with the spirit of the treaty, had been imposed, but on the representation of our Charge d'Affairs it has been promptly withdrawn, and we now enjoy the trade and navigation of the Black Sea, and of all the ports belonging to the Turkish empire in Asia, on the most perfect equality with all foreign nations.

I made a second attempt in this year to establish a diplomatic intercourse with them; but the death of the distinguished citizen whom I had appointed for that purpose has retarded the execution of measures from which I hoped much advantage to our commerce. The union of the three States which formed the republic of Columbia has been dissolved; but they all, it is believed, consider themselves as separately bound by the treaty which was made in their federal capacity. The Minister accredited to the Federation continues in that character near,the Government of New Grenada; and hopes were entertained that a new union would be formed between the separate States, at least for the purpose of foriegn intercourse.

Our Minister has been instructed to use his good offices whenever they shall be desired, to produce the reunion so much to be wished, for the domestic tranquillity of the parties and the security and facility of foreign commerce.

Some agitations naturally attendant on an infant reign have prevailed in the empire of Brazil, which bave had the usual effect upon commercial operations; and while they suspended the consideration of claims created on similar occasions, they have given rise to new complaints of our citizens. A proper consideration for calamities and difficulties of this nature has made us less urgent and peremptory in our demands for justice than our duty to our fellow-citizens would, under other circumstances, have required. But their claims are not neglected, and will on all proper occasions be urged, and it is hoped with effect.

1 refrain from making any communication on the subject of our affairs with Buenos Ayres, because the negotiation communicated to you in my last annual message was, at the date of our last advices, still pending, and in a state that would render a publication of the details inexpedient.

I wish earnestly, that in announcing to you the continuance of friendship, and the increase of a profitable commercial intercourse with Mexico, with central America, and the States of the south, I could accompany it with the assurance that they are all blessed with that internal tranquillity and foreign peace which their heroic devotion to the cause of their independence merits. In Mexico a sanguinary struggle is now carried on, which has caused some embarrassment to our commerce; but both parties profess the most friendly dispo- A treaty of amity and commerce has been sition towards us. To the termination of this formed with the republic of Chili, which, if contest we look for the establishment of that approved by the Senate, will be laid before secure intercourse so necessary to nations you. That Goverument seems to be estabwhose territories are contiguous. How im-lished and at peace with its neighbours; and portant it will be to us we may calculate from the fact that even in this unfavourable state of things our maritime commerce has increased, and our internal trade by caravans from San Luiz to Santa Fe, under the protection of escorts furnished by the Government, is carried on to great advantage, and is daily increasing. The agents provided for by the treaty with this Power to designate the boundaries which it established have been named on our part, but one of those evils of the civil war now raging there has been, that the appointment of those with whom they were to co-operate has not yet been announced to us.

its ports being the resorts of our ships which are employed in the highly important trade of the fisheries, this commercial convention cannot but be of great advantage to our fellowcitizens engaged in that perilous but profitable business.

Our commerce with the neighbouring State of Peru, owing to the onerous duties levied on our principal articles of export, has been on the decline, and all endeavours to procure an alteration have hitherto proved fruitless. With Bolivia we have yet no diplomatic intercourse, and the continual contests carried on between it and Peru have made me defer, until a more favourable period, the appointment of any agent for that purpose.

The Government of Central America has expelled from its territory the party which some time since disturbed its peace. Desir- An act of atrocious piracy having been comous of fostering a favourable disposition to-mitted on one of our trading ships by the wards us, which has on more than one occa- inhabitants of a settlement on the west coast sion been evinced by this interesting country, of Sumatra, a frigate was dispatched with

orders to demand satisfaction for the injury, if those who committed it should be found members of a regular government capable of maintaining the usual relations with foreigu nations; but if, as it was supposed, and as they proved to be, they were a band of lawless pirates, to inflict such a chastisement as would deter them and others from like aggres-invested with full authority to purchase the sions. This last was done, and the effect has been an increased respect for our flag in those distant seas, and additional security for our

commerce.

public debt of the United States, funded and unfunded, will be reduced to within a fraction of 7,000,000 dollars; of which 2,227,263 dol. lars are not of right redeemable until the 1. of January, 1834, and 4,735,296 dollars not until the 2. of January, 1835. The Commis sioners of the Sinking Fund, however, being debt at the market price, and the means of the Treasury being ample, it may be hoped that the whole will be extinguished within the year 1833.

preservation of the Indians, and lastly for the gallant veterans of the revolution.

In the view I have given of our connexion I cannot too cordially congratulate the Conwith foreign Powers allusions have beeu made gress and my fellow-citizens on the near ap. to their domestic disturbances or foreign wars, proach of that memorable happy event, the exto their revolutions or dissensions. It may tinction of the public debt of this great and free be proper to observe that this is done solely nation. Faithful to the wise and patriotic policy in cases where those events affect our political marked out by the legislation of the country relations with them, or to show their opera- for this object, the present Administration has tions ou our commerce. Further than this it devoted to it all the means which a flourishing is neither our policy nor our right to interfere. commerce has supplied, and a prudent econoOur best wishes on all occasions, our good my preserved for the public Treasury. Within offices when required, will be afforded to pro- the four years for which the people have conmote the domestic industry and foreign peace fided the executive power to my charge, of all nations with whom we have any inter-58,000,000 dollars will have been applied to course. Any intervention in their affairs the payment of the public debt. That this further than this, even by the expression of has been accomplished without stinting the an official opinion, is contrary to our prin- expenditure for all other proper objects will ciples of international policy, and will always be seen by reference to the liberal provision be avoided. made during the same period for the support The report which the Secretary of the and increase of our means of maritime and Treasury will in due time lay before you will military defence, for internal improvements exhibit the national finances in a highly pros-of a national character for the removal and perous state. Owing to the continued success of our commercial enterprise, which has enabled the merchants to fulfil their engage The final removal of this great burden from ments with the Government, the receipts our resources affords the means of further from customs during the year will exceed the provision for all the objects of general welfare estimate presented at the last session, and and public defence which the constitution auwith the other means of the Treasury will thorises, and presents the occasion for such prove fully adequate, not only to meet the in-further reduction in the revenue as may not creased expenditure resulting from the large appropriations made by Congress, but to provide for the payment of all the public debt which is at present redeemable. It is now estimated that the customs will yield to the Treasury, during the present year, upwards of twenty-eight millions dollars. The public lands, however, have proved less productive than was anticipated, and according to present information, will not much exceed two millions dollars. The expenditures for all objects other than the public debt are estimated to amount during the year to about sixteen millions five hundred thousand dollars, while a still larger sum, viz. eighteen millions dollars will have been applied to the principal and interest of the public debt.

It is expected, however, that in cousequence of the reduced rates of duty which will take effect after the 3. of March next, there will be a considerable falling off in the revenue from customs in the year 1833. It will, nevertheless, be amply sufficient to provide for all the wants of the public service, estimated even upon a liberal scale, and for the redemption and purchase of the remainder of the public debt. On the 1. of January next the entire

be required for them. From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury it will be seen that after the present year such a reduction may be made to a considerable extent, and the subject is earnestly recommended to the con sideration of Congress, in the hope that the combined wisdom of the representatives of the people will devise such means of effecting the salutary object as may remove those burdens which shall be found to fall unequally upon any, and as may promote all the great interests of the community.

Long and patient reflection has strengthen ed the opinions I have heretofore expressed to the Congress on this subject, and I deem it my duty on the present occasion to urge them upon the attention of the legislature. The soundest maxims of public policy, and the principles upon which our republic institutions are founded, recommend a proper adap tation of the revenue to the expenditure, and they also require that the expenditure shall be limited to what by an economical administration shall be consistent with the simplicity of the Government, and necessary to an efficient public service. In effecting this adjustment, it is due in justice to the interests of the other