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I have the satisfaction to inform the friends of hose who were left in slavery, that every exertion possible will be made both by Me. Willshire and Mr. Simpson, our consul, for their speedy redempion and restoration to their country. Any infor

New York, March 18, 1816.

28th, while we were in the act of hauling the brig|| Moors. In a short time after you receive this, I off to N. W she struck and was soon driven before hope to have the happiness of taking you by the a tremendous surfon a sandy beach near Cape Bas-band under my own roof again. You will come by sador, coast of Africa. We all reached the shore the way of Tangier. Your assured friend, HORATIO SPRAGUE," in safety, but were driven back to our boat on the 30th by the armed Arabs, all except Antonio Michael, whom they seized and kept. We then put to sea in our leaky boat, with a few pieces of pork and five gallons of water. After remaining at sea in this situation for four days, and finding no relie-I we put back for the land which we regained on the 8th of September, as we judge in latitude 25. Three days after, we were all seized upon by a party of Arabs, stripped entirely naked, and taken on camels and on foot seven days journey into the desart of Sahara; our only sustenance a pint of camel's milk and the same quantity of brackish water each per day, changing places and masters eve. ry day; our skins parched off by the heat of the sun, our flesh mangled by the motion of the camels, our feet lacerated by the sharp flint s'ones, with insects and vermin gnawing our exposed flesh,mation from them on this subject shall be made and without a tree, or even shrub to shelter us public; inquiries respecting then may be addressfrom the damp cold trade winds which prevail at ed to me at Middletown, Connec icut. night! Thus we suffered till about the last of Sep. JAMES RILEY. tember, when I succeed in prevailing on two itinerant Arabian merchants to purchase myself, Aaron R. Savage, Horace Savage, James Clark, and Thomas Burns, and carry us to Morocco; having no more goods, they could not purchase the rest of my unfortunate shipmates. After a journey of twenty-four days across the dreary desart of Sahara, during which we suffered frequent best ings, fatigues, and all the privations human nature is capable of enduring, we at length arrived in the kingdom of Sare, worn down to the bones, and incapable of moving farther. Here we procured some barley to sustain life. I wrote a note on a small piece of paper with a stick, which my master carried to Mogadore, then seven days journey distant. This note he delivered to Wm. Willshire, Esq. the most respectable merchant in Mogadore, a native of London, and agent to the Uni ed States consul at Tangier, who in the most prompt and humane manner, paid out of his own funds 1200 dollars for us, and sent a respectable Moor, named Reis-Bel-Cossim, with cloathing and provisions to our relief. The Mor on arriving was seized and detained five days; but had the address to effect his own and our deliverance, and took us to Mogadore on mules; here we were received in the kindest manner by Mr. Willshire, who took us to his own house, and administered all the necessaries and comforts our deplorable situation required.— Having paid our former masters, he despatched them, after binding them by an oath to search for and bring up the remaing part of the crew, if they could be found alive.

My feelings on receipt of this cannot be expressed by words On my arrival at Gibraltar found those of my companions who left Mogadore in a Gibraltar schooner had reached there in safety. was most generously, received by my friend Sprague, who treated me like a brother.

Capt. Robert Williams of the ship Rupid, most generously offered to myself, Mr. A. R Savage and Horace, Savage, a passage in his ship, in which we are happily arrived here this day. His kindness and attentions merit our warmest thanks.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Letter from the secretary of the treasury, transmit ting statements of the receipts and expenditures of the treasury of the United States, from the 31 of March, 1789, to the 31st of March, 1315; made in pursuance of a resolution of the house of rebresentatives of the 20th inst.-January 26th, 1316. -itead and ordered to lie upon the table.

Treasury department, January 25, 1816. SIR-In obedience to a resolution of the house of representatives of the 20th inst I have the hou or to lay before the house,

No. 1. An explanatory letter from the register of the treasury, accompaning, the statements required by the resolution.

No. 2. A statement of the annual receip's and expenditures of the United States, from the 3d of March, 1789, to the 31st of March, 1815, exclusive of moneys recei ved from loans, foreign and domestic, and payments on account of the foreign and domestic debt; and on account of the revolutionary government, which are separately stated:

No. 3 Statements, 1st, of the moneys annually received from foreign and domestic loans, 2nd, of the sums paid annually on account of the public debt; and 3rd, of the whole amount, paid annually on account of the revolutionary government from the com. mencement of the present government. I have the honor to be, with great respect and consideration, sir, your most obedient servant,

A. J. DALLAS.

In my first note to Mr. Willshire, I had named Mr. Horatio Sprague, a respectable merchant of Gibraltar, formerly of Boston, as my friend, tho' I had only known him ten days. Mr. Willshire immediately wrote to him describing our situation, and when his express returned, I received the following letter, dated Gibraltar, November 13, 1815. It speaks the soul of the wri er:

Treasury department. Register's office, "My dear Riley-I will not waste a moment's January 25th, 1816. time by unnecessary preamble. I have written to Sin-I have the honor to transmit a statement, Mr. Willshire, that your draft on me for $1200 or formed in pursuance of a resolution of the house more, for obtaining your liberty, and those with of representatives of the United States, of the 20th you, shall be duly paid. I have sent him two dou-instant, with accompaning documents (A. B. C. ble barrelled guns to meet his promise to the l in relation to the receipts on account of foreign and

The honorable Henry Clay,

Speaker of the house of representatives.
[No. 1.]

domestic loans, and of the payments on account || by the secretary of the treasury of the 11th Januof the foreign and domestic debt, and of the pay-ary, 1813, under a resolution of that house of the ments in relation to the revolutionary government. 24th December, 1812, and embrace all receipts and payments, whether made at the treasury, or The receipts into the treasury from imports and tonnage have been by the commissioners of loans abroad, to the date of the latest settlement at the treasury, of the acinternal revenue counts of the United States' commissioners in Londirect taxes don and Amsterdam.

postage of letters sales of public lands miscellaneous

747,388 40 8,658,369 38 1,590,001 68

247,019,302 79

The receipts from foreign and do-
mestic loans, (as per statement 107,138,181 41
A.) amounts to

The sum total of receipts to 31st
March, 1815, the latest period

to which the treasurer's account

is settled at the treasury, is, $354,157,487 20 The expenditures are stated viz: Pay and subsistence

of the army 88,270,562 85 Fortification of ports

4,374,805 26

and harbors,
Fabrication of cannon, 263,611 54
Purchase ofsalt-petre, 150,000 00
Additional arms, 300,000 00
Arming and equiping

the militia, 1,100,000 00
Detachment of militia 170,000 00
2,000,000 00
Services of militia
Services of volunt'rs 1,000,000 00

Indian department,

Holding treaties,&c. 878,313 68 459,726 98 Trading houses,

Naval department,
Foreign intercourse, exclusive of
Barbary powers, and including
the sum of 6,361,000 paid under
the convention with G. Britain,

of the 8th Jan. 1802, and with
France of the 30th April, 1803,
Barbary powers,
Civil list,
Miscellaneous civil,

To which, add the expenditures in
relation to the payment of the
interest and charges on the for-
eign loans, and principal of the
foreign and domestic debt at the
treasury of the United States,
and by the commissioners a-
broad, as per statement B.
And the expenditures on account
of the revolutionary govern-
ment, per statement C

1,597,294 07

before stated,

$354,157,487 20 It will be perceived that these statements are a continuation in point of form, of those rendered to the house of representatives of the United States,

VOL. 1.]

YEARS.

of the army. Pay and Subsistence

From March 4, 1789, to Dec. 31, 1791

and harbors. Fortifications of ports

632,804
1792 1,100.702 09
1793 1,130,249 08
1794 2,597,047 93
1795 2,399,136 63
1796 1,234,502 58
1797
999,311 88
1798 1,823,565 96
1799 2 295,819 56
1800 2,444,878 77
1801 1,587,914 08
1802 1,048,135 75
1803
773,456 81
1804 938,923 93
1805 768,281 28
1806 1,383,555 38
1807 1,094,285 91 225,000 00
1808 1,766,434 41,075,000 00

1809 2,365,772 17
1810 1,851,923 94
1811 1,837,828 19
1812 9,492 798 24
1813 17,925,966 72
1814 20,027.906 86

655,000 00
428,000.00
95,000 00
370,000 00
761,046 30

From the 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 1815 8,749,330 68

Continued. EXPENDITURES.

Fabrication of cannon |

42.049 66
81.773 50
25,761 26
40,090 78
185,956 34
171,127 42
116,000 00
85,000 00

18,000 00 155,012 5.
108,599 04

•

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.

tre. &c. Purchase of saltpe

632,804 03 1,100,702 09

1,130,249 08 2,639,097 59 2,480,910 13

1,260,263 84 1,039,402 66 2,009,522 30

2,466,946 98

2,560,878 77

1,672,944 08
1,221,148 25
882,055 85
938,923 93
768,281 28
1,383,555 38
1,389,285 91
3,041,434 40
3,470,772 17
2,389,923 94
2,122,828 19

1,600,000 00 460,000 00 12,022,798 24 400,000 00 540,000 00 19,747,013 02

20,507,906 86 8,749,330 68

38,270,562 854,374,805 26263,611 54150,000 00 1,100,000 00 300,000 oul170,000 00l2,000,000 00 1,000,000 00 97,628,679 65

150,000 00

the militia. Arming and equiping

Additional arms.

100,000 00

110,000 00 190,000 00

100,000 00 120,000 00 480,000 00

300,000 00

Detachment of militia.

Services of militia.

70,000 00 100,000 00

Services of volunteers

Total

1792 13,648 85
1793 27,282 83
1794 13,042 46
1795 21,475 68
1796 55,563 98 58,000 00
1797 32.396 38 30,000 00
1798 16,470 09

2,000 00

1799 20,302 19
1800
31 22
1801 9.000 00

1802 20,000 00 32,000 00
1803

1804 53,000 00!

From the 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 1815 :

Naval

department

570 00

53 02

Foreign

intercourse

1,733 33 78,766 67

89,500 00

146,403 51

Barbary

in tercourse

13,000 00

Civil list

75,120 00
497,284 31
214,717 52

72,000 00

757,134 45 380,917 58

102,075 2
199,449 0
161,330 1.

251,319 8
196,137 7
253,849 48
270,555 84
257,767 32
343,336 78
400,462 75
268,119 97
459,651 03
466,574 78
527,360 71

535,046 52
509,701 02
424,866 16
398,527 6
532,963 54

Aggregate

expenditures.

358,241 08

440.946 58

61,408 97
410,562 03
274,784 04.
382.631 89
1,381.347 76
2,858,081 84
3,448,716 03
1,111,424 00

361,633 36
447,139 05
483,233 70
504,605 17

4,350,596 45
2,531,930 40
2,833,590 96
4,623,223 54
6,480,166 72
7,411,369 97
4,981,669 90

592,905 76
748,688 45

912,685 12
109,739 64
172,504 23
242,711 22
199.374 11
185,145 33
139,851 73
915,561 87 416.253 62
1,215,230 53 1,001,968 34
1,189.832 75 1,129,591 62
1805 41,000 00,100,000 00 1,597.500 00 2,655.769 62
1806
75,000 00 1,649,641 44 1,613,922 09
44,000 00' 1,722,064 47
2,250 00 1,884,067 80
43,353 84 2,427,753 80
23,800 00 1,654,244 20
4,150 00, 1,965,566 39.
16,870 00 3,959,355 15
16,883 28 6,446,600 10
10,294 86 7311,290 60
1,125 00 2,950,000 00'

1807 60,825 00
1808 70,725 00
1809 169,150 00
1810 58,225 00
1811 57,725 00
1812 55,975 00'
1813 55,475 00
181

419.845 61
314,233 26
74.918 12
48,795 60
181.746 15
297,327 04
153.771 01
163,879 97
27,578 40

210,142 85
155,825 00
134,672 31
108,836 43
57,063 95
142,259 15
146,499 21
157,980 73
90,759 57
91 387 92
32.571 88
83.158 32
5.376 25
36.170 00
13.390 00
2,167 00

549,288 31
596,981 11
526,583 12
624.795 63
585,849 79
684,230 53
655,524 65
691,167 80
712.455 13
703,994 03
644.467 27
826.271 55
780,545 45

3,737,079 91
4,002,824 24
4,452,858 91
6,357,234 62
6,080,209 36
4,981,572 89
6,504,338 85|
7,414,672 14
5,311,082 23
5,592,604 86
600,515 47 17,829.498 70
825,939 06 28,082,396 92
927,424 231,193,539 83 30,127,636 38
355,662 01 251,962 3 12,337,825 43

808,313 68 459.726 98 47.818.303 69 10.678.015 34 2.405.322 40 14.940.695 79 9,909,978 91184,719,336 43

1,718,129 37
1,766,077 15
1,707,348 28
3,500,348 20

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

JOSEPH NOURSE

VOL I.]

No. 3.-(A.)

A statement af the monies annually received from fo-
reign and domestic loans, either at the treasury ||Fr 4th o
of the United States, or by their commissioners a-
broad, commencing on the 4th of March, 1789,
until the 31st of March, 1815, formed in pursu-
ance of a resolution of the house of representatives
of the United States, of the 20th January, 1816.
From the 4th of

Mr 1784
to 31s
Dee 179
170
17..
179
170.

Receipts from

10 1701

179.

Loans. 5,552.475 31

179

180

4,936,595 56

1,000,000

1801 2,878,704 11 3,396,908 69.
5.413,965 81 4, 20,038 95

4,600,000

180
18.
80
180

3,300,000

320,000

180

70,000

190

200,000

180. 1800

March, 1789, to

31st December 1791

1792

1793

1794

1795

-1796

1797

1798

1799

1800

1801

1802

1803

1804

5,000,000

1,565,229 24

2,750,000

12,837,900

26,184,435

23,377,911 79

10,728,530 12

101,423,077 02

ARS.

Treasury Department,

-4,715,107 89

107,138,184 14

2,835,500
6,094,800

Total.
12,837,900
26,184,435

8,297,365 7923,377,911 79

10,728,530 12

Principal.

From 1st

Treasury Department, Register's

2,638.612 06 2,090,637 44 258,800
4,062,036 76 3,076,628 23 125,000
3,047,263 18 2,714.2-3 83 57,948 28
54,062 50
2,311,285 57 3,413,254 50
2,895,260 45 3,136,671 16 52,480
2.640,791 91 3,183,490 56
2,402,379 76 3,220,043 06 80,000
937,012 86 3,053,201 28
1,410,589 18 3,186,287 60
1,203.665 23 3,374,704 72

Jan. to 311
Mr 1815

JOSEPH NOURSE, Register.
[No. 3.]
(B)

A statement of the sums paid annually on 'account of
the public debt, from the 4th of March, 1789, un-
til the 31st of March 1815, in which the sums paid
for principal, interest, and charges, are distin-
guished, respectively; formed in pursuance of a
resolution of the house of representatives of the
United States, of the 20th Jan, 1816.

3.457,331 43
8.005,204 90
3,220,890 97
5,266,476 73
2,038,141 62
6,832,002 48

181

181.
1813

1,998,319 88
7,508,668 22
1814 3,307,307 90

3,790.113 41 4,259,582 55 4,140,998 82 3,694,407 88 3,369,578 48 3.423.152 87! 3,586,479 26 2,866,074 90

5,163,476 93 2,845,42 53

5,543,470 80 2,465.733 16

2,451,272 57
3,599,455 22
4,593,239 04

Office,

157,823 27 38,729 55 6,959 86 4,151

Jan. 25, 1716.

Interest.