upon parade at this time, and Philo-Patria's assertion that the light infantry company unanimously declared their resolution of retiring from the corps if the man was punished, I believe to be utterly false.--The next time this portion of the regiment paraded, I took an opportunity of personally addressing the light infantry company, and after pointing out to them in the strongest Language I could use, the impropriety of their late conduct, I repeated my determination of having every order issuing from me rigidly enforced; and, I also, addressed myself to the person charged with being the ringleader, informing him of my intention of expelling him from the regiment as an unworthy and dangerous member.' In a few hours after delivering this address, I receiv ed two letters, of which the following are correct copies.--" Sir D. Mackworth."The kind concern you have always expressed for the welfare of every individual "in the regiment, emboldens me to address you, and induces me to cherish a hope "that you will not with-hold forgiveness "from faults repented of. That I have er"red in my conduct towards you this week "I am now fully sensible, though at the mo ment, I thought myself justified in acting as I did. I am no sooner convinced of my error, than I feel sorry for it. Should you "persist in your determination of expelling

me from the regiment, you will be the "means of rendering me extremely unhappy, "but should your good nature incline you "to milder measures, and lead you to grant "the pardon for which I now petition, you

will have the satisfaction of restoring com"fort to a man who will willingly exert "that warmth in your defence which be

trayed him into such conduct as he now repents of.-1 am, Sir, your humble ser"vant.-JAMES NOTT SMITH."

"lieve him from his present disagreeable si"tuation. We are too proud, Sir, of the

approbation you have sometimes express"ed of our general behaviour, not to la"ment that it should for a moment suffer "in your estimation: but we flatter our"selves that when the indiscretions of this "week shall cease to operate on your mind,

our conduct will evince that the light in"fantry will not be wanting in respect and "attachment to their officers, or in any of "the duties incumbent on zealous de"fenders of their country.-Signed by 33 "members." As the foregoing letters do in my opinion reflect high credit on the parties by whom they were written, I have great satisfaction in laying them before the public, who will judge and determine from these documents, and from what I have previously stated, how far the regiment and I are deserving of the stigma attempted to be fixed upon us by a negligent anonymous writer. It is almost unnecessary for me to add, that upon the proofs given of repentance and submission, I readily pardoned the offenders, who having thus returned to a sense of their duty, complied with the order for removing the velvet binding in the strictest manner,I am, Sir, your humble servant, DIGBY MACKWORTH, COLONEL. O. L. V.

PUBLIC PAPERS.

TREATY between the United States of America and the French Republic, for the cession of Louisiana. concluded at Paris on the 30tk April, 1803.

The President of the United States of America and the First Consul of the French Republic in the name of the French people, desiring to remove all source of misunderstanding relative to objects of discussion mentioned in the 2d and 5th articles of the convention of the 8th Vendemiaire, an 9, (30th September, 1800) relative to the rights claimed by the United States, in virtue of the treaty concluded at Madrid the 27th of October, 1795, between his and willing to strengthen the union and friendCatholic Majesty and the said United States, ship which at the time of the said convention was happily re-established between the two na tions, have respectively named their plenipo tentiaries, to wit, the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, Robert R. Living. ston, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, minister plenipoStates, near the Government of the French tentiary and envoy extraordinary of the said Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, citizen Francis Barbé Marbois, minister of the public treasury, who,

after having respectively exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles :Art. I. Whereas, by the article the 3d of the treaty concluded at St. Idelfonso, the 9th Vendemiaire, an 9, (1st October, 1800) between the First Consul of the French Republic and his Catholic Majesty, it was agreed as follows:"His Catholic Majesty promises and engages "on his part to cede to the French Republic, "six months after the full and entire execution ❝ of the conditions and stipulations herein re"lative to his Royal Highness the Duke of "Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, "with the same extent that it now has in the "hands of Spain, and that it had when France "possessed it; and such as it should be after "the treaties subsequently entered into between "Spain and other States."-And whereas, in pursuance of the treaty, and particularly of the 3d article, the French Republic has an incontestible title to the domain and to the possession of the said territory. The First Consul of the French Republic desiring to give to the United States a strong proof of his friendship, doth hereby cede to the said United States, in the name of the French Republic, for ever an in fuil sovereignty, the said territory, with all its rights and appurtenances, as fully and in the saine manner as they have been acquired by the French Republic in virtue of the abovementioned treaty, concluded with his Catholic Majesty.-Art. II. In the cession made by the proceeding article are included the adjacent islands belonging to Louisiana, all public lots and squares, vacant lands, and all public buildings, fortifications, barracks, and other edifices which are not private property. The archives, papers and documents, relative to the domain and sovereignty of Louisiana and its dependencies, will be left in the possession of the commissaries of the United States, and copies will be afterwards given in due form to the magistrates and municipal officers, of such of the said papers and documents as may be necessary to them.-Art. III. The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the union of the United States, and admitted, as soon as possible, according to the principals of the federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean-time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoy. ment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess. Art. IV. There shall be sent by the government of France a commissary to Louisiana, to the end that he do every act necessary, as well to receive from the officers of his Catholic Majesty the said country and its dependencies, in the name of the French Republic, if it has not been already done, as to transmit it in the name of the French Republic to the commissary or agent of the United States. -Art. V. Immediately after the ratification of the present treaty by the President of the Unired States, and in case that of the French Consul's shall have been previously obtained, the commissary of the French Republic shall remit all military pests of New Orleans, and other

parts of the ceded territory, to the commissary or commissaries named by the President to take possession; the troops, whether of France or Spain, who may be there, shall cease to occupy any military post from the time of taking possession, and shall be embarked as soon as possible in the course of three months after the ratification of this treaty.-Art. VI. The United States promise to execute such treaties and articles as may have been agreed between Spain and the tribes and nations of the Indians, until, by mutual consent of the United States and the said tribes or nations, other suitable articles shall have been agreed upon.-Art. VII. As it is reciprocally advantageous to the commerce of France and the United States to encourage the communication of both nations for a limited time in the country ceded by the present treaty, until general arrangements relative to the com merce of both nations may be agreed on it has been agreed between the contracting parties, that the French ships coming directly from France or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce and manufactures of France or her said colonies; and the ships of Spain coming directly from Spain or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce or manufactures of Spain or her colonies, shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the port of New Orleans, and in all other legal ports of entry within the ceded territory, in the same manner as the ships of the United States coming directly from France or Spain, or any of their colonies, without being subject to any other or greater duty on merchandize, or other or greater tonnage than that paid by the citizens of the United States.-During the space of time above-mentioned, no other nation shall have a right to the same privileges in the ports of the ceded territory: the twelve years shall commence three months after the exchange of ratifications, if it shall take place in France, or three months after it shall have been notified at Paris to the French government, if it shall take place in the United States; it is however well understood, that the object of the above articles is to favor the manufactures, commerce, freight and navigation of France and of Spain, so far as relates to the im portations that the French and Spanish shill make into the said ports of the United States, without in any sort affecting the regulations that the United States may make concerning the exportation of the produce and merchandize of the United States, or any right they may have to make such regulations.—Art. VIII. In future, and for ever after the expiration of the twelve years, the ships of France shall be treated upon the footing of the most favored nations in the ports above mentioned. Art. IX. The patticular convention signed his day by the respective ministers, having for its object to provide for the payment of debts due to the citizens of the United States by the French Republic, prior to the 30th of September, 1800, (8th Vendemiaire, an 9,) is approved, and to have its execution in the saine manner as if it had been inserted in this present treaty, and it shall be ratified in the same form and in the same time,

so that the one shall not be ratified distinct from the other. Another particular convention signed at the same date as the present treaty, relative to a definitive rule between the contracting parties, is in the like manner approved, and will be ratified in the same form, and in the same time, and jointly.-Art. X. The present treaty shall be rat fied in good and due form, and the ratification shall be exchanged in the space of six months after the date of the signature by the ministers plenipotentiary, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed these articles in the French and English languages; declaring nevertheless that the present treaty was originally agreed to in the French language; and have thereunto affixed their seals.-Done at Paris, the 10th day of Floreal, in the 11th year of the French Republic, and the 30th of April, 1803. BARBE MAR BOIS.

ROB. K. LIVINGSTON, JAS. MONROE.

Convention referred to in Art. IX. of the preceding Treaty, for settling the Terms of the Payment for Louisiana.

The President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Repub. lic, in the name of the French people, in consequence of the treaty of cession of Louisiana, which has been signed this day, wishing to regulate definitively every thing which has relation to the said cession, have authorised to this effect the plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States has, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said states, nominated for their plenipotentiaries, Robert R. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the said United States, near the government of the French Republic; and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, has named as plenipotentiary of the said Republic, the citizen Francis Barbe Marbois; who, in virtue of their full powers, which have been exchanged this day, have agreed on the following articles :-Art. I. The government of the United States engages to pay to the French government, in the manner specified in the following article, the sum of sixty millions of francs, independent of the sum which shall be fixed by another convention, for the payment of the debts due by France to citizens of the United States.-Art. II. For the payment of the sum of sixty millions of francs, mentioned in the preceding article, the United States shall create a stock of eleven millions, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bearing an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable half yearly in London, Ainsterdam, or Paris, amounting by the half year to three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars, according to the proportions which shall be determined by the French government to be paid at either place; the principal of the said stock to be reimbursed at the treasury of the United States, in annual payments of not less than three millions of dollars each; of which the first pay

ment shall commence fifteen years after the date of the exchange of ratifications; this stock shall be transferred to France, or to such person or persons as may be the government of authorised to receive it, in three months at most after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, and after Louisiana shall be taken possession of in the name of the government of the United States. It is further agreed, that if the French government should be desirous of dis posing of the said stock, to receive the capital in Europe, at shorter terms, its measures for that purpose shall be taken so as to favour, in the greatest degree possible, the credit of the United States, and to raise to the highest price the said stock.-Art. II. It is agreed that the dollar of the United States, specified in the present convention, shall be fixed at five francs 3333 10000ths, or five livres, eight sous tournois.The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the space of six months, to date from this day, or sooner if possible.-In faith of which, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, both in the French and English languages, declaring, nevertheless, that the present treaty has been originally agreed on and written in the French language; to which they have hereunto affixed their seals-Done at Paris the 10th of Floreal, eleventh year of the French Republic (30th April, 1803).

BARBE MARBOIS. ROB. R. LIVINGSTON. JAS. MONROE.

Convention, referred to in Art. IX. of the preceding treaty, for providing for the payment of debts, due to the Citizens of the United States, by the French Republic,

The President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, having by a treaty of this date terminated all difficulties relative to Louisiana, and established on a solid foundation the friendship which unites the two nations, and being desirous, in compliance with the second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year of the French Republic (30th Sept. 1800) to secure the pay. ment of the sums due by France to the citizens of the United States have respectively nominated as plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, Robert R. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary, and James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary and en voy extraordinary of the said states, near the go. vernment of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, in the citizen Francis Barbe Marbois, minister of the public treasury: who, after having ex changed their full powers, have agreed to the following articles,Art. 1. The dbets due by France to citizens of the United States, contracted before the 8th of Vendemiaire, ninth year of the French Republic (30th Sept. 1800) shall be paid according to the following regulations, with interest at six per cent. to commence from the period when the accounts and vouchers were pre

sented to the French government.-Art. II. The debts provided for by the preceding article are those whose result is comprised in the conjectural note annexed to the present convention, and which, with the interest, cannot exceed the sum of twenty millions of Francs. The claims comprised in the said note, which fall within the exceptions of the following articles, shall not be admitted to the benefit of this provision.-Art. III. The principal and interests of the said debts shall be discharged by the United States, by orders drawn by their minister plenipotentiary on their treasury; these orders shall be payable sixty days after the exchange of ratifications of the treaty and the conventions signed this day; and after possession shall be given of Louisiana by the commissaries of France to those of the United States.-Art. IV. It is expressly agreed, that the preceding articles shall comprehend no debts but such as are due to the citizens of the United States, who have been and are yet creditors of rance, for supplies for embargoes and prizes made at sea, in which the appeal has been properly lodged within the time mentioned in the said convention, 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year, (30th Sept. 1800).-Art. V. The preceding articles shall apply only, first, to captures of which the council of prizes shall have ordered restitution, it being well understood that the claimant cannot have resource to the United States, otherwise than he might have had to the government of the French Republic, and only in case of insufficiency of the captors; 2d, the debts mentioned in the said fifth article of the convention contracted before the 8th Vendemiaire, an. 9, (33. Sept. 1800) the payment of which has been heretofore claimed of the actual government of France, and for which the creditors have a right to the protection of the United States; the said fifth article does not comprehend prizes whose condemnation has been or shall be confirmed; it is the express intention of the contracting parties not to extend the benefit of the present convention to reclamations of American citizens, who shall have established houses of commerce in France, England, or other countries than the United States, in partnership with foreigners, and who by that reason and the nature of their commerce ought to be regarded as domiciliated in the places where such houses exist. All agreements and bargains concerning merchandize, which shall not be the property of American citizens, are equally excepted from the benefit of the said convention, saving, however, to such persons their claims in like manner as if this treaty had not been made.-Art. VI. And the dfferent questions which may arise under the preceding article may be fairly investigated, the ministers plenipotentiary of the United States shall name three persons, who shall act from the present and provisionally, and who shall have full power to examine, without removing the documents, all the accounts of the different claims already liquidated by the bureaus established for this purpose by the French Republic, and to ascertain whether they belong to the classes designated by the present convention and the principles established in it; or if they are not in one of its

exceptious and on their certificate, declaring that the debt is due to an American citizen or his representative, and that it existed before the 8th Vendemiaire, 9th year (30th Sept. 1800) the debtor shall be entitled to an order on the treasury of the United States, in the manner prescribed by the third articie.-Art. Vil. The same agents shall likewise have power, without removing the documents, to examine the claims which are prepared for verification, and to certify those which ought to be admitted by uniting the necessary qualifications, and not being comprised in the exceptions contained in the present convention-Art. VIII. The same agents shall likewise examine the claims which are not prepared for liquidation, and certify in writing those which in their judgment ought to be admitted to liquidation. Art. IX. In proportion as the debts mentioned in these articles shall be admitted, they shall be disharged with interest at six per cent. by the treasury of the United States.

Art. X. And that no debt which shall not have the qualifications above mentioned, and that no unjust or exorbitant demand may be admitted, the commercial agent of the United States at Paris, or such other agent as the minister plenipotentiary of the United States shell think proper to nominate, shall assist at the operations of the bureaus, and co-operate in the examinations of the claims; and if this agent shall be of opinion that any debt is not completely proved, or if he shall judge that it is not comprised in the principles of the fifth article above mentioned, and if notwithstanding his opinion, the bureaus established by the French Government should think that it ought to be liquidated, he shall transmit his observations to the board established by the United States, who, without removing documents, shall make a complete examination of the debt and vouchers which support it, and report the result to the minister of the United States. The minister of the United States shall transmit his observations, in all such cases, to the minister of the treasury of the French Republic, on whose report the French government shall decide definitively in every case.-The rejection of any claim shall have no other effect than to exempt the United States from the payment of it, the French government reserving to itself the right to decide definitively on such claim so far as it concerns itself.-Art. XI. Every necessary decision shall be made in the course of a year, to commence from the axchange of ratifications, and no reclamation shall be admitted afterwards. Art. XII. In case of claims for debts contracted by the government of France with citizens of the United States since the 8th Vendemiaire, 9th year (30th Sept. 1800), not being comprised in this convention, may be pursued, and the payment demanded in the same manner as if it had not been made.-Art. XIII. The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form. and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from the date of the signature of the ministers plenipotentiary, or sooner if possible.In faith of which, the respective Ministers Pienipotentiary have signed the above articles bot. in the French and English languages, declaring

FOREIGN OFFICIAL PAPERS. MESSAGE from the President of the United States of America to both Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of an Extraordinary Session, held at the City of Washington, on the 17th October, 1803.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States,-In calling you together, fellow citizens, at an earlier day than was contemplated by the act of the last session of Congress, I have not been insensible to the personal inconveniencies necessarily resulting from an unexpected change in your arrangements; but matters of great public concernment have rendered this call necessary; and the interests you feel in these will supercede in your minds all private considerations.--Congress witnessed, in their late session, the extraordinary agitation produced in the public mind, by the suspension of our right of deposit at the port of New-Orleans, no assignment of another place having been made according to treaty. They were sensible that the continuance of their privation would be more injurious to our nation, than any consequences which could flow from any mode of redress. But reposing just confidence in the good faith of the government whose officer had committed the wrong, friendly and reasonable representations were resorted to, and the right of deposit was restored.Previous, however, to this period, we had not been unaware of the danger to which our peace would be perpetually exposed, whilst so important a key to the commerce of the western country remained under foreign power. Difficulties too were presenting themselves as to the navigation of other streams, which, arising within our territories, pass through those adjacent. Propositions had therefore been authorized for obtaining, on fair conditions, the sovereignty of New-Orleans, and of other possessions in that quarter interesting to our quiet, to such extent as was deemed practicable; and the provisional appropriation of two millions of dollars, to be applied an accounted for by the President of the United States, intended as part of the price, was considered as conveying the sanction of Congress to the acquisition proposed. The enlightened government of France saw, with just discernment, the importance of both nations of such liberal arrangements as might best and permanently promote the peace, friendship, and interests of both: and the property and sovereignty of all Louisiana. which had been restored to them, has, on certain conditions, been transferred to the United States by instruments bearing date the 30th of April last. When

these shall have received the constitutional sanction of the Senate, they will, without delay, be communicated to the Representatives, also, for the exercise of their functions as to those conditions which are within the powers vested by the constitution in Congress. Whilst the property and sovereignty of the Mississippi and its waters secure an independent outlet for the produce of the western states, and an uncontroled naviga tion through their whole course, free from collision with other powers, and the dangers to our peace from that source, the fertility of the country, its climate and extent, promise, in due season, important aids to our treasury, and ample provision for our posterity, and a wide spread for the blessings of freedom and equal laws. With the wisdom of Congress it will rest to take those ulterior measures which may be necessary for the immediate occupation and temporary government of the country, for its incorporation into our union; for rendering the change of government a blessing to our newly adopted brethren; for securing to them the rights of conscience and of property for confirming to the Indian inhabitants their occupancy and self-government, establishing friendly and commercial relations with them, and for ascertaining the geography of the country acquired. Such materials for your information relative to its affairs in general, as the short space of tme has permitted me to collect, wil be laid before you when the subject shall be in a state for your corsideration.--Another important acquisition of territory has also been made, since the last session of Congress. The friendly tribe of Kaskaskia, Indians, with which we have never had a difference, reduced, by the wars and wants of savage life, to a few individuals unable to defend themselves against the neighbouring tribes, has transferred its country to the United States, reserving only for its members what is sufficient to maintain them, in an agricultural way. The considerations stipu lated are, that we shall extend to them our patronage and protection, and give them certain annual aids, in money, in implements of agriculture, and other articles of their choice. This country, among the most fertile within our limits, extending along the Mississippi from the mouth of the Illinois, to and up the Oho, though not so necessary as a barrier, since the acquisition of the other bank, may yet be well worthy of being laid open to immediate settlement, as its inhabitants may descend with rapidity in support of the lower country, should future circumstances expose that to foreign enterprise. As the stipulations, in this treaty also, involve matters within the competence of both houses only, it will be laid before Congress so soon as the Senate shall have advised its ratificarion. -With many of the other Indian tribes, improvements in agriculture and household manufacture, are advancing; and, with all, our peace and friendship are established on grounds much firmer than heretofore. The measure adopted of establishing trading-houses among them, and of furnishing them necessaries in exchange for their commodities, at such me