midation permitted from the house. At this, the mob dispersed; whatever power the civil or military could wield, should be given but shortly returned with a drum, and fire arms, and with an in-for their protection. Other citizens repaired to judge Scott's, and creased violence attacked the house most furiously in the front and required that the military should be ordered out; and after a cousi rear. But the same spirit of forbearance animated its defenders, derable delay, the requisition to brigadier general Stricker was prowhen a discharge of musketry wounded some of the assailants. cured, who issued to col. Sterett, commanding the fifth regiment, Judge Scott hurried to this scene of uproar, and, with Mr. Abell, to major Barney, of the cavalry, to col. Harris, of the artillery, the us devery persuasive argument to induce the mob to desist, but respective orders accompanying this report. with no success; his language and authority were alike treated committee that whatever be the construction of the orders given to It appears to your with contempt. Every exertion which men invested of reason,and colonel Sterett, brigadier-general Stricker verbally forbid him to inflamed by passion could make, was made to destroy the defenders deliver out to the men under his command, ball cartridges. Of col. of the house. To execute this savage design, the door was again Sterett's regiment, thus ordered out, but thirty or forty obeyed the burst open, and a man by the name of Gales, the chief of the mob, call of their commander; this defection, in the opinion of your shot dead as he ent red. A field piece was procured by the mob, committee, may be traced to the united causes of indisposition to and elevated at the house. protect the persons in the gaol, an apprehension of immediate dauWhile this bloody scene was acting before the house of Mr. Hanger, of future proscription, and of the inefficient preparation unson, many well disposed citizens, alarmed for the peace of the city, der which they were ordered to march-of the cavalry but a few at and anxious for the preservation of the persons in the house, gather tended. ed at brigadier-general Stricker's; who, irritated by Mr. Hanson's During these operations in Gay-street, it was known to those return to the city, which might be the innocent cause of a requisi- ferocious monsters who panted at the gaol for the blood of their tion being made upon him by the civil authority, which would ne-unarmed fellow-citizens, that the military were ordered out. The cessarily be attended with a responsibility, received some of the a-mayor used every persuasive argument to induce them to disperse, plications which were made to him, for the interposition of a milita-and to effect that, gave them a solemn pledge that neither Mr. Had ry force, in a style well adapted to excite irritation; but still consent-son nor his friends should be bailed. These assurances, united with ed to obey any call which the magistracy should deem it expedient apprehensions of a formidable resistance from the military produced to make on him. But such was the intolleraut spirit of the magistra from some a reluctant promise that the gaol should not be attemptcy against that establishment, or such was their anxiety to avoid any ed. Some of the most daring had left the gaol, and repaired to responsibility for their official duties, that great difficulty, and much see the operations of the force convening to arrest the completion delay occurred in procuring two magistrates sufficiently devoted to of their horrid designs. At this unfortunate moment, an interchange the public good, and the ir oath of office, to sign the requisition. Ma of opinion took place between general Stricker and others, which jor Barney, of the cavalry, before this, had received an order to re-resulted in a belief that the interposition of the military would not pair to his general, which he obeyed with alacrity, and received from be requisite, and that if any should be required, the force collect him a copy of the orders herewith submitted. Major Barney, with ed would be insufficient; orders were given to dismiss the military about thirty horsemen under his command, moved down between 1-it was the signal for destruction. The mob collected with a savage and 3 o'clock to the house. The mob, apprehensive of an efficient impetuosity, and heedless of the feeble opposition formed by the resistance, were alarmed, and at his approach generally retired. But intreaties of the mayor, they attacked the sanctuary of the pri his conduct soon dispelled their fears, and gave rise to a belief soners-The outer door was opened by treachery; the inner doors among them that he was either unwilling, or incompetent to en-yielded to their rage and force; they entered the room of the getforce their dispersion. Thus all apprehensions of the military or tlemen; there a scene of horror and murder ensued; which, for civil inter position being banished, the timed were emboldened, and its barbarity, has no parallel in the history of the American people, the daring unchecked by any suggestions of a future accounta bility. and no equal but in the massacres of Paris. The good, the venera ble, the gallant general Lingan, whose early life was distinguished The mayor, the attorney general, general Stricker, and some by his active and manly exertions to rescue his country from the other citizens distinguished by their political consequence, became controul of a British parliament; who was honored by the confi the negociators between the gentlemen in the house and their vin- dence of the immortal saviour of the nation, and who practised dictive assailants. This negociation terminated in an arrangement, every christian virtue, was here overpowered by these sous of mur that Mr. Hanson and his friends, should be conducted to the gaol, as der, and became the victim of their merciless ferocity. Seven or a place of security, under a solemn pledge, that every possible ex-eight of the gentlemen were thrown in a heap, under an impres ertion should be made for their protection and the security of their sion, entertained by these assassins, that they were dead. Some ef property. fected their escape by stratagem, or by the interposition of some A military escort was prepared, and a guard of unarmed citizens. protecting friend. One was detained as a subject for the trial of A hollow square was formed, within which Mr. Hanson and his every refinement of torture which their fiend-like invention sug friends, accompanied by those who had promised them protection, gested. The humanity of certain medical gentlemen was exerted, and some other citizens, of the greatest political weight, entered; and by their interposition, under Divine Providence, those sup and thus, attended by hundreds crying for vengeance, and pressing posed to be dead were restored to life and society. On the ensuing on their destruction, they reached the gaol. During this agoniz- day a general terror prevailed throughout the city. ing march, when the ferocity of the mob excited a general belief among those who had confided themselves to the civil power, that their destruction would ensue before they should be put into the promised place of protection, frequent attempts were made to massacre them, by the throwing of stones, notwithstanding it endangered the lives of the political favorites of the mob. Some of those who had been in the house at the commencement (To be continued.) American Ingenuity. Bridge over the river Schuylkill, at the upper ferry, of the attack, attempted by various modes to insure a retreat; some erected by Lewis Wernwag, Engineer. were arrested in their flight by the mob; and the savage temper of this "many headed monster" displayed itself in the cold and deli- construction, and having an arch nearly one hundred This bridge is interesting, from its being of new Revolutionary France furnished the lawless precedent of exhibit-feet longer than any bridge in Europe or America. The following description is believed to be ac berate manner in which it planned the execution of its captives. ing upon the lamp-post, by the irresponsible fiat of the populace, those who were supposed wanting in duty to the republic. A na tive of our country was seized on, and an attempt made to imitate curate :— the example set by the blood-thirsty Parisians. From the comple The bridge consists of two abutments, and one tion of this sanguinary deed they were prevented by a stratagem arch, extending across the river. ABUTMENTS. The castern abutment is sixty feet front on the After Mr. Hanson and his friends were placed in gaol, a general river, and forty feet thick-It is founded on a rock, apprehension was entertained that the mob would, on the ensuing and is about forty feet high. night, endeavor to force their prison, and glut their vengeance en the unarmed prisoners. The whole city was in a state of commo- The western abutment, with its wings, is built on tion; the criminal court was closed, and the anxious and inquiring 599 piles, driven through a frame containing two countenances of the citizens, denoted the approaching tragedy, in hundred and seventy-five thousand feet of timber, which all the barbarities which ferocions men, unchecked by the well connected, as well by the combination of its wholesome restraints of the law, perform, would be exhibited. The tons. prison was surrounded by groups of an infuriated mob, eternally parts, as by iron bolts, weighing on the whole three demanding vengeance. The weight of character, the necessary concomitant of wealth This abutment is sixty-two feet front on the and political standing in society, was not generally brought into river, and forty feet thick. action to allay the excited feelings of the city; but, on the other hand, a belief was impressed that Mr. Hanson and his immediate political friends, were enemies to the country; that his visit to Baltimore was SUPERSTRUCTURE. A single arch, whose chord is three hundred and the consequence of an arrangement to insult and dragoon the eiti- forty feet three inches and three quarters of an incha constitutional right to change the venue to an adjoinging county nineteen feet eleven inches-The curve formed by zens; that they were murderers; that they would avail themselves of Versed sine, or rise from the chord to the apex, and thus escape the punishment of their crimes. The Whig gave extensive circulation to these strictures. The general spirit otin this arch is not, however, that of the segment of tolerance against the establishment, united with the occurrences one great circle; but of segments of circles of une of the day, and these excitements, produced an apathy among the well disposed, and gave an increased activity to the turbulent and qual radii-Those of the longest radii being nearest the abutments, and the shortest at the apex. The width of the superstructure, at the abut that a guard would be stationed in and around the gaol, and that ments, is fifty feet, and at the apex thirty two feet vindictive. The inayor and brigadier-general visited those confined in gaol, refused them arms for defence, and gave them solemn assurances The three ribs, extending across the river, from prevented from coming into contact are secured from The first stone was laid the 29th day of April last, The weight of the wood in the superstructure has The small ribs are placed on their edges, two in been ascertained by measuring it after it was dressed breadth and three in depth, and so formed as to be and fitted together, so as to find the number of cubic at the abutment equal to a solid mass of timber, feet of each kind of timber-then several pieces of four feet deep and one foot thick, gradually dimi-the same kinds of timber, of ascertained dimensions, nishing in size, so as to be at the apex but three were weighed, and their average taken for the asfeet deep and one foot thick. They are prevented sumed weight. from coming into contact by one inch iron bars 3601 05 1505 1029 1575 516 67 cubic feet. placed between them, six feet asunder, but are con- Three ribs, chord 340 feet 3 3-4 inches, average thickness 3 feet 6 in. by 12 in. nected together by large iron bands also six feet apart, well secured, and susceptible of being drawn 87 king posts, 15 feet long, and 1 foot sq. The 3 truss ties, 343 feet long, and 1 foot sq. tighter as the timber dries, by strong screws. 84 braces, 18 feet 9 in. long, and 1 foot sq. foot ways are outside of the ribs. 29 caps or cross ties, 36 ft. long, 8 in. by 12 The three large ribs are preserved in their proper relative situations by fifty-four cross ties, at the bot-38 floor beams, 44 feet long, 6 in. by 12 tom of, and secured to the ribs, by strong iron stir-54 cross ties, 44 feet long, 6 inches by 12 1188 rups; upon these ties, and between the ribs, are 36 joists, 36 feet long, 3 inches by 12 two hundred and thirty-two horizontal braces, laid 232 braces, (lattice work) 29 feet long, 5 inches by 6 in the form of latice work, so as completely to prevent any lateral motion. From abundant caution, 464 studs, 5 feet long, 5 inches by 6 however, strong iron bars, secured to the corners large posts to support the ends of the roof at the abutments, 22 feet long, of the abutments, are extended in a horizontal direc20 inches by 7 1-4. tion diagonally, in several places through the ribs of the bridge. Upon each of the ribs are twenty-nine king posts, set in cast iron boxes of a proper shape to receive them, and secured by iron stirrups embracing the rib and post. Upon the tops of these posts are truss ties extending the whole length of the bridge, and upon the truss ties are ties extending across the bridge, well secured to the king posts and truss ties. The form and combination of the wooden work of this superstructure appears in every respect to be calculated for the most ample security; but the engineer has given it still more strength, by twelve iron bars, one and a half inches square, secured in the bottom of each abutment, and passing up through the great body of masonry to the top, and from thence to the top of the first king posts, thence descending by an angle of about 450 to the ribs, which they embrace-then from the top of the second king posts there are two iron bars, descending by a like angle to the rib which they embrace; and so in like manner from the top of every king post there are bars of iron descending in like manner to the ribs until they meet at the centre. By these the combination is better secured, and the weight thrown more towards the haunches of the bridge. The king posts, truss ties, and cross ties, are secured in their proper places by iron bars, extending through the mass of masonry in the abutments to the top, and from thence through those timbers longitudinally and diagonally from one end of the bridge to the other. The cart way at the entrance of the bridge is fourteen feet above the spring of the arch, and passes between the ribs at the apex, forming in its progress an angle with the horizon of about two degrees. 4 Floor, 3 inches thick, 343 feet long, and 324 1353 33 483 33 88 2572 50. Amount cubic feet 12,732 38 WEIGHT. Yellow pine, 3576 cubic feet, at Weight of wood, cast iron, American Gallantry. [Though a very liberal notice has already been taken of the capture of the Frolic by the Wasp, we cannot refuse insertion to the following elegant article from the "Port Folio" for the present month.] Under this title we have occasionally selected such incidents, in our military ammals, as, from their minuteness, had escaped the view of the general histoThe ribs, the cart way, and the string pieces, rian; but which were calculated to excite the high The present form so many arches, which are all connected and se-and honorable feelings of patriotism. cured by ties, braces, and bars of iron, in such a war has again awakened the energies of the nation; manner as to form one connected and combined and already produced examples of signal intrepidity It is, however, on the nawhole, equal in strength, perhaps, to any thing that among our countrymen. vy of the United States that our national pride, and human ingenuity can devise. All the timber in this bridge has been slit through our hopes of glory, at this moment repose. We have the heart, so as to show any defect, and by being never been able to look without the highest satisfac = tion on that fearless profession; the nursery of ge- with such success and that of the Frolic so slacke nerous courage, and of high-ininded patriotism-toed, that capt. Jones did not wish to board her, lest Whose followers every form of danger is alike fami- the roughness of the sea might endanger both vesBar and without terror. sels; but, in the course of a few minutes more, every brace of the Wasp was shot away, and her rigNor toil, nor hazard, nor distress, appear To sink the seaman with undianly fear; ging so much torn to pieces, that he was afraid that Who from the face of danger strives to turn, his masts, being unsupported, would go by the board, Indignant from the social hour they spurn; No future ills, unknown, their souls appal, and the Frolic be able to escape. He thought, thereThey know no danger or they scorn it all. fore, the best chance of securing her was to board, But we have no language to convey our admiration and decide the contest at once. With this view he of the young and gallant spirits, who, in the first wore ship, and running down upon the enemy, the essays of their strength, have triumphed over the vessels struck each other; the Wasp's side rubbing veteran science, and the disciplined valor, of the ha- along the Frolic's bow, so that her jib-boom came bitual conquerors on the ocean. They have retriev in between the main and mizen rigging of the Wasp, ed all our disasters-they have shed new lustre on directly over the heads of captain Jones and the first our arms, and sustained even in the midst of morti-lieutenant, Mr. Biddle, who were, at that moment, fying reverses, the loftiest tone of national enthu- standing together near the capstan. The Frolic lay siasm. Their only anxiety has been to find the ene- so fair for raking that they decided not to board unmies of their country; and, wherever they have met til they had given a closing broadside. Whilst they them, their valor has rendered victory certain, whilst were loading for this, so near were the two vessels, their skill has made it easy. that the rammers of the Wasp were pushed against Devoted, as is this journal, to all that can add the Frolic's sides, and two of her guns went through honor or distinction to the national character, it has the bow ports of the Frolic, and swept the whole At this moment Jack Lang,* s no fairer pages than those which record instances of length of her deck. bravery like the following, the account of which seaman of the Wasp, a gallant fellow, who had been we have rendered scrupulously minute and authen- once impressed by a British man of war, jumped on tic. a gun with his cutlass, and was springing on board The United States sloop of war the Wasp, com- the Frolic; captain Jones wishing to fire again be manded by captain Jacob Jones, was cruising in fore boarding, called him down; but his impetuosilong. 65, W. and lat. 37, N. the track of vessels pasty could not be restrained, and he was already on sing from Bermuda to Halifax, when on Saturday the bowsprit of the Frolic; when, seeing the ardor the 17th of October, about 11 o'clock, in a clear and enthusiasm of the Wasp's crew, licut. Biddle moon-light evening, she found herself near five mounted on the hammock cloth to board. At this strange sail, steering eastward. As some of them signal the crew followed, but lieut. Biddle's feet got seemed to be ships of war, it was thought better to entangled in the rigging of the enemy's bowsprit, get farther from them. The Wasp, therefore, haul- and midshipman Baker, in his ardor to get on board, ed her wind, and having reached a few miles to wind-laying hold of his coat, he fell back on the Wasp's Ward, so as to escape or fight as the occasion might deck. He sprang up, and as the next swell of the require, followed the strange sail through the night. sea brought the Frolic nearer, he got on the bow At day-break on Sunday morning, capt. Jones found sprit, where Lang and another seaman were already. that they were six large merchant ships, under con- He passed them on the forecastle, and was surpris voy of a sloop of war, which proved to be the Fro-ed at seeing not a single man alive on the Frolic's lic, capt. Whinyates, from Honduras to England, deck, except the seaman at the wheel and three offiwith a convoy, strongly armed and manned, having cers. The deck was slippery with blood, and strew. all forty or fifty men, and two of them mounting sixed with the bodies of the dead. As he went forward, teen guns each. He determined, however, to attack the captain of the Frolic, with two other officers, them, and as there was a heavy swell of the sea, and who were standing on the quarter deck, threw down the weather boisterous, got down his top-gallant their swords, and made an inclination of their bo yards, close reefted the top-sails, and prepared for dies, denoting that they had surrendered. At this action. About 11 o'clock the Frolic shewed Spanish moment the colors were still flying, as probably note colors; and the Wasp immediately displayed the A-of the seamen of the Frolic would dare to go inte merican ensign and pendant. At 32 minutes past 11, the rigging for fear of the musketry of the Warp the Wasp came down to windward, on her larboard Lieut. Biddle, therefore, jumped into the rigging side, within about sixty yards and hailed. The ene- himself, and hauled down the British ensign, and my hauled down the Spanish colors, hoisted the possession was taken of the Frolic, in forty-three She was in a shocking British ensign and opened a fire of cannon and mus- minutes after the first fire. ketry this the Wasp instantly returned; and, com- condition; the birth-deck particularly was crowded ing near to the enemy, the action became close and with dead and wounded, and dying; there being without intermission. In four or five minutes the but a small proportion of the Frolic's crew who had main-top-mast of the Wasp was shot away, and fall- escaped. Captain Jones instantly sent on board his ing down with the main-top-sail yard across the lar-surgeon's mate, and all the blankets of the Frolic board fore and fore-top-sail braces, rendered her were brought from her slop-room for the comfort of head yards unmanageable during the rest of the ac- the wounded. To increase this confusion, both the tion. In two or three minutes more her gaft and Frolic's masts soon fell, covering the dead and every mizen-top-gallant-mast were shot away. Still she thing on deck, and she lay a complete wreck. continued a close and constant fire. The sea was so It now appeared that the Frolie mounted sixtee rough that the muzzles of the Wasp's guns were thirty-two pound carronades, four twelve pounders frequently in the water.. The Americans, therefore, on the main deck, and two twelve pound carronades -fired as the ship's side was going down, so that their She was, therefore, superior to the Wasp, by exactly shot went either on the enemy's deck or below it, whole the English fired as the vessel rose, and thus *John Lang is a native of New Brunswick in Newher balls chiedy touched the rigging, or were thrown Jersey. We mention, with great pleasure, the name The Wasp now shot ahead of the Frolic, of this brave American seaman, as a proof, that cor raked her, and then resumed her position on her lar-spicuous valor is confined to no rank in the naval setboard bow. Iler fire was now obviously attended' vice. away. four twelve pounders. The number of men on, Salem aforesaid,about 7 years; that on the 14th day Board, as stated by the officers of the Frolic, was of June, 1809, I was impressed and forcibly taken one hundred and ten-the number of seamen on from the ship Jane of Norfolk, by the sailing-master board the Wasp was one hundred and two; but it (his name was Car) of his majesty's ship Porcupine, could not be ascertained whether in this one hun- Robert Elliott commander. I had a protection from dred and ten, were included marines and officers, the custom-house in Salem, which I shewed to capt. for the Wasp had, beside her one hundred and two Elliott; he swore I was an Englishman, tore my promen, officers and marines, making the whole crew tection to pieces before my eyes, and threw it overabout one hundred and thirty-five. What is however board, and ordered me to go to work-1 told him I decisive, as to their comparative force is, that the did not belong to his flag, and I would do no work officers of the Frolic acknowledged that they had under it. He then ordered my legs to be put in as many men as they knew what to do with, and in irons, and the next morning ordered the master at fact the Wasp could have spared fifteen men. There arms to take me on deck and give me two dozen' was therefore on the most favorable view, at least lashes; after receiving them, he ordered him to` an equality of men, and an inequality of four guns. keep me in irons, and give me one biscuit and one The disparity of loss was much greater. The ex- pint of water for twenty-four hours. After keeping act number of killed and wounded on board the me in this situation one week, I was brought on Frolic could not be precisely determined; but from deck, and asked by capt. Elliott if I would go tổ the observations of our officers, and the declarations my duty-on my refusing, he ordered me to strip, of those of the Frolic, the number could not have tied me up a second time, and gave me 2 dozen been less than about thirty killed, including two of more, and kept me on the same allowance another ficers, and of the wounded between forty and fifty; week-then ordered me on deck again and asked if the captain and second-lieutenant being of the num-I would go to work; I still persisted that I was an ber. The Wasp had five men killed and five slightly American, and that he had no right to command my wounded. services, and I would do no work on board his ship All hands were now employed in clearing the-He told me he would punish me until I was wildeck, burying the dead, and taking care of the ling to work; and gave me the third two dozenwounded, when captain Jones sent orders to lieut. lashes, ordered a very heavy chain put round my Biddle to proceed to Charleston, or any southern neck, (such as they had used to sling the lower port of the United States; and as there was a suspi-yard) fastened to a ring bolt in the deck, and that cious sail to windward, the Wasp would continue no person, except the master at arms should speak her cruise. The ships then parted. The suspicious to me, or give me any thing to eat or drink, but my sail was now coming down very fast. At first it was one biscuit and pint of water for twenty-four hours, supposed that she was one of the convoy, who had until I would go to work. I was kept in this situa all fled during the engagement and the ship cleared tion nine weeks, when being exhausted by hunger for action; but the enemy, as she advanced, proved and thirst, I was obliged to yield. After being on to be a seventy-four-the Poictiers, captain Beres-board the ship more than two years and a half, and ford. She fired a shot over the Frolic; passed her; being wounded in an action with a French frigate, I overtook the Wasp, the disabled state of whose rig-was sent to the hospital-when partially recovered, ging prevented her from escaping; and then return-I was sent on board the Impregnable, a 98 gun ship. ed to the Frolic, who could, of course, make no My wound growing worse, I was returned to the hos resistance. The Wasp and Frolic were carried in-pital, when the American consul received a copy of to Bermuda. my protection from Salem, and procured my dis 66 M. TOWNSEND, Justices of peace, and of the quorum It is not the least praise due to captain Jones, that charge on the twenty-ninth day of April last. There his account of this gallant action is perfectly modest were seven impressed Americans on board the Por and unostentatious. On his own share in the cap-cupine, three of whom had entered. ture it is unnecessary to add any thing. "The cou ISAAC CLARK. tage and exertions of the officers and crew," he obEssex, 88-December 23, 1812. serves, fully answer my expectations and wishes. Then Isaac Clark personally appeared and made Lieutenant Biddle's active conduct contributed much solemn oath that the facts in the foregoing declarato our success, by the exact attention paid to every tion, by him made and subscribed, were true in all department during the engagement, and the animat-their parts-Before JOHN PUNCHARD, ing example he afforded the crew by his intrepidity. Lieutenants Rodgers and Booth and Mr. Rapp, showed by the incessant fire from their divisions, that they were not to be surpassed in resolution or skill. Mr. Knight, and every other officer, acted with a courage and promptitude highly honorable. Lieut. Claxton, was confined by sickness, left his bed a A resolution was passed by the legislature of this little previous to the engagement; and though too state, (says the Raleigh (N. C.) Register,) so long weak to be at his division, remained upon deck, and ago as the year 1781, awarding elegant swords to showed by his composed manner of noting its inci- the officers who bravely fought and conquered at the dents, that we had lost by his illness, the services of famous battle of King's Mountain, in this state; abrave officer." A Common Case. The heroes of King's Mountain. but the then executive not having it in his power to procure such swords as were deemed proper for the Toccasion, the resolution has lain unattended to ever since. At the late session, generals Shelby and Sevier (two of the surviving officers) sent on a memoThe undersigned deponent has returned to Salem-rial in relation to the subject which produced an His lot has been the lot of thousands. "IMPRESS-unanimous adoption of the following resolution : MENT MUST CEASE." Resolved unanimously, by both houses of the ge I, Isaac Clark, of Salem, in the county of Essex, neral assembly, that his excellency the governor bel and commonwealth of Massachusetts, on solemn requested to procure three elegant swords, such as in path declare, that I was born in the town of Ran- his estimation it is not unworthy of North-Carolina dolph in the county of Norfolk, have sailed out of to bestow on those who have distinguished claims on customs have been Direct tax the gratitude of her citizens; and that he cause The receipts into the treasury from Postage of letters Total of receipts called for by the And if to this be added the aggre- Colonel Joseph Winston being a member of the senate, and present at the passage of the resolution, rose in his place, and expressed himself nearly as follows:-"Mr. Speaker, am at a loss for words to express my sense of the honor which the general assembly has conferred upon me by this grateful present. I trust, that the sword which is directed to be presented to me, will never be tarnished by cow-The sum total of receipts to 30th ardice, but be wielded in defence of my country's rights and independence.” Amount of Inspections In the city of Baltimore, from 1st Jan, to 31st Dec. 1812. Sept. 1812, is $199,524,131 78 6,460,003 54 1,757,240 84 667,548 70 6,161,283 02 1,216,775 39 $215,786,783 27 39,856,620 $255,643,403 27 Wheat flour Ditto 537,988 bbls. increase 21,729 and harbors Fabrication of can 3,493,758 96 do. 1,857 Purchase of saltpe 6,184 casks decrease 1,129 tre 150,000 increase 2,900 Additional arms 300,000 Arming and equip. ping of the mili increase 9,300 tia 500,000 Mackerel 1,885 do. decrease 1,000 Detachment of the increase 170 militia 170,000 270 Services of volun Foreign do, 2,326 do. increase 300 teers 210,000 44,066,745 65 Oil 963 do, do. do. 5,600 Holding (reaties, &c. 822,838 68 430,298 84 1,253,137 52 29,889,660 78 10,311,145 33 2,328,810 40 12,686,493 36 7,566,228 17 $108,102,221 21 their commissioners abroad, of 144,862,260 67 And the expenditures on account of the revolutionary government, of SIR-I have the honor to transmit herewith a state-The sum total of expenditures to ment formed in pursuance of a resolution of the house of representatives of the United States, of the Which, with the balance in the 24th of December, 1812. 30th Sept. 1812, is treasury on 30th Sept. 1812, of Make the sum total of receipts as 316,268 70 253,280,750 58 2,362,652 69 $255,643,403 27 This account exhibits an annual summary of all the receipts and expenditures of the United States, from the commencement of the federal government| to the 30th September, 1812, with the exception I have the honor to be, sir, with the greatest reof the receipts and payments on account of domes-spect, your most obedient and most humble servant, tic and foreign loans, and of payments made on account of the revolutionary government. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register Hon. Albert Gallatin, secretary of the treasury, |