making in the whole 29,300,000 dollars, to be received during the last nine months of the present year, will be necessary to meet the expenditures already authorised, and the engagements contracted in relation to the public debt. These engagements amount, during that period, to 10,500,000 dollars, which, with near one million for the civil, miscellaneous, and diplomatic expenses, both foreign and domestic; and 17,800,000 for the military and naval expenditures, including the ships of war building, and to be built, will leave a sum in the treasury at the end of the present year equal to that of the 1st of April last. A part of this sum may be considered as a resource for defray ing any extraordinary expenses al ready authorised by law, beyond the sums above mentioned; and a further resource for any emergency may be found in the sum of one million of dollars, the loan of which to the United States has been authorised by the state of Pennsylvania, but which has not yet been brought into effect.

This view of our finances, whilst it shows that due provision has been made for the expenses of the current year, shows at the same time, by the limited amount of the actual revenue, and the dependence on loans, the necessity of providing more adequately for the future supplies of the treasury. This can best be done by a well digested sy stem of internal revenue, in aid of existing sources; which will have the effect both of abridging the armount of necessary loans, and on that account, as well as by placing the public credit on a more satisfactory basis, of improving the terms on which loans may be obtained.

The loan of sixteen millions was not contracted for at a less interest

than about seven and a half per cent.; and although other causes may have had an agency, it cannot be doubted that, with the advantage of a more extended and less precarious revenue, a lower rate of interest might have sufficed. A longer postponement of the advantage could not fail to have a still greater influence on future loans.

In recommending to the national legislature this resort to additional taxes, I feel great satisfaction in the assurance, that our constituents, who have already displayed so much zeal and firmness in the cause of their country, will cheerfully give other proofs of their patriotism, which it calls for. Happily no people, with local and territorial exceptions never to be wholly avoid-, ed, are more able than the people of the United States to spare for the public wants a portion of their private means, whether regard be had to the ordinary profits of industry, or the ordinary price of subsistence in our country, compared with those in any other. And in no case could stronger reasons be felt for the yielding the requisite contributions.

By rendering the public resources certain, and commensurate to the public exigencies, the constituted authorities will be able to prosecute the war more rapidly to its proper issue; every hostile hope, founded on a calculated failure of our re sources, will be cut off; and by. adding to the evidence of bravery and skill, in combats on the ocean and on the land, an alacrity in supplying the treasury necessary to give them their fullest effect; and thus demonstrating to the world the public energy which our political institutions combine with the personal liberty distinguishing them, the best security will be provided (P2)

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against future enterprises on the rights or the peace of the nation.

The contest in which the United States are engaged, appeals for its support to every motive that can animate an uncorrupted and enlightened people, to the love of country, to the voice of liberty, to the glorious founders of their independence, to a successful vindication of its violated attributes; to the gratitude and sympathy which demands security from the most degrading wrongs, of a class of citizens who have proved so worthy of the protection of their country by their heroic zeal in its defence; and finally to the sacred obligations of transmitting entire to future generations, that precious patrimony of national rights and independence, which is held in trust by the present from the goodness of Divine Providence.

Being aware of the inconveniences to which a protracted session, at this season, would be liable, I limit the present communication to objects of primary importance. In special messages which may ensue, regard will be had to the same consideration.

JAMES MADISON.
Washington, May 25, 1813.

ARMISTICE.

To-day, 4th June, (23d May), the plenipotentiaries named by the belligerent powers

The duke of Vicenza, grand écuyer of France, general of division, &c. appointed minister plenipotentiary by his majesty the emperor of the French, &c. furnished with full powers by his highness the prince of Neufchatel, &c.

Count Schouvaloff, lieutenantgeneral and aid-de-camp to the emperor of all the Russias, &c. and

lieutenant-general Kleist, in the service of his majesty the king of Frussia, &c. furnished with full powers by his excellency the general of infantry Barclay de Tolly, general in chief of the combined armies:

After having exchanged their full powers, at Gebersdorff, the 1st June (20th May), and signed a suspension of arms for thirty-six hours, at the village of Peicherwitz, neutralized for that purpose, between the advanced posts of the respective armies, to continue the negotiations for an armistice proper to suspend hostilities between all the belligerent troops, no matter on what point they are, have agreed upon the articles following:

Art. 1. Hostilities shall cease upon all points, upon the notification of the present armistice.

II. The armistice shall last to the 8th (20th) July, inclusive. Hostilities not to commence with out giving six days notice.

III. Hostilities shall not consequently recommence till six days after the denunciation of the armistice at the respective headquarters.

IV. The line of demarcation between the belligerent armies is fixed as follows:-in Silesia, the line of demarcation of the combined army, setting out from the frontiers of Bohemia, shall pass through Dettersbach, Saffendorf, Landshut, follow the Bober to Rudelstadt; pass from thence through Bolkenhan, Striegegau, follow the Strieganerwasser to Gauth, and get on the Oder by passing through Bettlern, Olfaschin, and Altholf. The combined army shall be at liberty to occupy the towns of Landshut, Rudelstadt, Bolkenhagen, Striegau, and Gauth, as well as their suburbs.

The line of the French army, also setting

setting out from the frontier which touches Bohemia, shall pass through Seiffershauf and Altkamnitz, fol. low the course of the small river which falls into the Bober, not far from Bertelsdorf: afterwards from the Bober to Lahn; from thence to Newkeek upon the Katzbach, by the most direct line, from whence it will follow the course of that river to the Oder. The towns of Parchwitz, Leignitz, Goldberg, and Lahn, no matter on what side the river they are situated, may, as well as their suburbs, be occupied by the French troops.

All the territory between the French and combined armies shall be neutral, and cannot be occupied by any troops; not even by the landsturm. This disposition consequently applies to the town of Breslau. From the mouth of the Katsbach the line of demarcation shall follow the course of the Oder to the frontiers of Saxony and Prussia, and join the Elbe, in passing the Oder, not far from Muhlrose, and following the frontiers of Prussia, so that all Saxony, the country of Dessau, and the small states surrounding the princes of the confederation of the Rhine, shall belong to the French army, and all Prussia shall belong to the combined

army.

The Prussian territories in Saxony shall be considered as neutral, and shall not be occupied by any troops.

The Elbe to its mouth fixes and determines the line of demarcation between the belligerent armies, with the exception of the points hereafter mentioned.

The French army shall remain in possession of the isles, and every thing which it occupied in the 32d military division, on the 27th May (Sth June) at midnight.

If Hamburg is only besieged, that town shall be treated like the other besieged towns. All the articles of the present armistice, which are relative to them, are applicable to it.

The line of the advanced posts of the belligerent armies at the epoch of the 27th May (8th June) at midnight, shall form, for the 32d military division, that of the demarcation of the armistice, with the military alterations which the respective commandants shall judge necessary. These alterations shall be made in concert with an officer of the staff of each army, upon the principle of perfect reciprocity.

V. The fortresses of Dantzic, Modlin, Zamosc, Stettin, and Custrin, shall be re-victualled every five days, according to the force of their garrisons, through the care of the commanders of the blockading troops. A commissary appointed by the commandant of each place shall be with one of the besieging troops, to see that the stipulated provisions is exactly supplied.

VI. During the time of the armistice every fortress shall have behind its walls an extent of a French league. This ground shall be neutral. Magdeburg will consequently have its frontier a league upon the right bank of the Elbe.

VII. A French officer shall be sent into each of the besieged places, to inform the commandant of the conclusion of the armistice, and of. its re-victualling. A Russian or Prussian officer shall accompany him during the journey, both going and coming.

VIII. Commissaries named on both sides, in each place, shall fix the price of the provisions furnished. This account, settled at the end of every month by the commissioners charged with maintaining the ar

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IX. Officers of the staff shall be appointed on either side to regulate in concert the general line of demarcation, respecting points which shall not be determined by running water, and respecting which there may arise any difficulty.

X. All the movements of the troops shall be so regulated, that each army shall occupy its new line on the 12th June (31st May). All the corps, or parts of the combined army which may be beyond the Elbe or in Saxony, shall return into Prussia.

XI. Officers of the French and combined armies shall be dispatched conjointly, to use hostilities to cease on all points, and make the armistice known. The respective commanders in chief shall furnish them with the necessary powers.

XII. On both sides two commissaries, general officers, shall be appointed to watch over the stipulations of the present armistice. They shall remain in the line of neutrality at Neumarkt, to decide upon such disputes as may occur.

These commissaries shall proceed there within twenty-four hours, in order to expedite officers and orders that may be sent in consequence of the present armistice.

Done and settled the present act in twelve articles, in double copies, the day, month, and year above mentioned.

CAULINCOURT, duke of Vicenza. Count SCHOUVALOFF-DE KLEIST. Seen and ratified by order of the emperor and king, the prince viceconstable of France, major-general of the grand army. (Signed)

June 4, 1813.

ALEXANDER.

BETWEEN HIS BRI

TANNIC MAJESTY AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS, SIGNED AT REICHENBACH, THE 15TH OF JUNE, 1813.

In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.

His majesty the king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, have spared no sacrifice, neglected no effort, to put a limit to the destructive projects of the enemy of Europe. It is at a period when Providence has manifestly favoured their arms, that their majesties, animated with the desire of restoring independence, peace, and prosperity to nations, have agreed, with a view of employing all the means in their power for the attainment of this salutary end, to adjust, by a particular convention, the nature and extent of the pecuniary succours, and the assistance which the two crowns shall mutually afford to each other during this war. Accordingly, they have appointed their respective plenipotentiaries, namely, his majesty the king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, William Shaw, viscount Cathcart, &c. ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to his majesty the emperor of all the Russias; and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, Charles count de Nesselrode, a privy councillor, secretary of state, &c. who, after having compared and exchanged their full powers, have concluded the following articles:

Art. I. His majesty the emperor of all the Russias, being firmly resolved to carry on the present war with the utmost energy, engages to employ throughout,

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