Your assured friend, HORATIO SPRAGUE," My feelings on receipt of this cannot be expressed by words On my arrival at Gibraltar I found those of my companions who left Mogadore in a Gibraltar schooner had reached there in safety. I was most generously, received by my friend Sprague, who treated me like a brother. Capt. Robert Williams of the ship Rpid, most generously offered to myself, Mr. A. R Savage and Horace, Sivage, a passage in his ship, in which we are happily arrived here this day. His kindness and attentions merit our warmest thanks. I have the satisfaction to inform the friends of hose who were left in slavery, that every exertion possible will be made both by Mr. Willshire and Mr. Simpson, our consul, for their speedy redempion and restoration to their country. Any information from them on this subject shall be made public; inquiries respecting then may be addressed to me at Middletown, Connec icut. JAMES RILEY. 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. 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 relief 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 ca mels, our feet lacerated by the sharp flint s'ones, with insects and vermin gnawing our exposed flesh, and without a tree, or even shrub to shelter us from the damp cold trade winds which prevail at night! Thus we suffered till about the last of Sep. 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. 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 wriser:— RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Letter from the secretary of the treasury, transmitting statements of the receipts and expenditures of the treasury of the United States, from the 31 of March, 1789, to the 31st of March, 1815; made in pursuance of a resolution of the house of ebresentatives of the 20th inst.-January 26th, 1316. -Head 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 honor to lay before the house, No. 1. An explanatory letter from the register of expenditures of the United States, from No. 3 Statements, 1st, of the moneys annually Speaker of the house of representatives. Treasury department. Register's office, "My dear Riley-I will not waste a moment's 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 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 accounts of the United States' commissioners in London and Amsterdam. internal revenue direct taxes postage of letters sales of public lands miscellaneous 222,530,374 56 247,019,302 79 The receipts from foreign and do- The sum total of receipts to 31st 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 Fortification of ports and harbors, 88,270,562 85 4,374,805 26 Fabrication of cannon, 263,611 54 Purchase ofsalt-petre, 150,000 00 Additional arms, Arming and equiping the militia, 300,000 00 1,100,000 00 Detachment of militia 170,000 00 97,628 979 65 316,268 60 352,500,193 13 1,597,294 07 $354,157,487 20 Make the sum total of receipts as before stated, 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, RECEIPTS. Imposts and Internal reve- Direct Taxes. Postage. Public Lands. Micellaneous. Aggregate. nue. 4,418,913 09 7,137,529 65 YEARS. 208,942 81 1793 4,255,306 56 337,705 70 1794 4,801,065 28 274,089 62 1795 5,883,461 26 337,755 36 11,020 51 1796 6,567,987 94 475,289 60 72,909 84 1797 7,549,649 65 575,491 45 64,500 1798 7,106,061 93 644,357 95 39.500 4,836 12 83,540 60 11,963 11 1799 6,610,449 31 779,136 44 41,000 809,396 55 443 75 20,101 45 13,051 40 1809 7,296,020 58 8,210 73 4,044 39 50,198 44 26,500 487,526 79 21,342 50 266,149 15 13,560,693 20 3,614 73 1810 8,583,309 31 7,430 63 12,448 68 696,548 82 84,476 84 8,958,777 53 1811 13,313,222 73 5,998,772 08 1813 13,224,623 25 1,172,935 57 222,530 374 56 1812 1814 2.295 95 7,666 66 4,903 06 859 22 4,755 04 37 70 1,662,984 82, 2,219,497 36 45,000 838,593 84 496,282 81 1,040,237 53 710,427 78 835,655 14 1,135,971 09 267,394 68 60,068 52 9,016,342 24 4,476,826 53 747 388 40 8,658,369 38 1,590,001 68 247,019,302 79 From the 1st Jan. to 31st March 1815 38,270,562 854,374,805 26263,611 54150,000 00 1,100,000 00 300,000 oul170,000 00 2,000,000 001,000,000 00197,628,679 65 808,313 68 459.726 98 47.818.303 68 10.678.015 34 2.405.322 40 14.940.695 799,909,978 91184,719,336 43 915,561 87 416.253 62 134,672 31 596,981 11 400,462 75 3,737,079 91 108,836 43 526,583 12 268,119 97 4,002,824 24 57,063 95 624.795 63 459,651 03 4,452,858 91 142,259 15 585,849 79 466,574 78 6,357,234 62 146.499 21 684,230 53 527,360 71 6,080,209 36 419.845 61 157,980 73 655,524 65 535,046 52 4,984,572 89 509,701 02 424,866 16 398,527 63 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, REGISTER'S OFFICE, January 25th. 1816, JOSEPH NOURSE. 1792. 33 33 1793, 36 Mr. 4, '89, to Dc. 31,'91, 157,789 9438,683 13 1,454 08 3,533 1795, formed inpursuance of a resolution of the house of representatives of the 20th Ja. 1816. |