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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:—

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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
the treasury, accompaning the statements
require i 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 re-
volutionary government, which are sepa-
rately 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.
The honorable Henry Clay,

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

Treasury department. Register's office,
January 25th, 1816.

"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
9,016,342 24
4,476,826 33
747,388 40
8,658,369 38 I have the honor to be, very respectfully, sir,
1,590,001 68your obedient humble servant, J. NOURSE, Reg.
Hon. A. J. Dallas, Secretary of the treasury.

247,019,302 79

The receipts from foreign and do-
mestic loans, (as per statement 107,138,184 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

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
Services of militia 2,000,000 00
Services of volunt'rs 1,000,000 00

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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,

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RECEIPTS.

Imposts and Internal reve- Direct Taxes. Postage. Public Lands. Micellaneous. Aggregate.

nue.

4,418,913 09
3,661,932 30
4,614,423 14
5,128,432 87
5,954,534 59

7,137,529 65
8,303,560 99
7,820,575 80
7,475,773 31
10,777,709 10
13,663,233 95
11,826,307 38
11,064,097 63
12,846,530 95

YEARS.

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29,478 49
22,400

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
0,080,932 73
1801 10,750,778 93
1802 12,138,215 74
1803 10,479,417 61,
1804 11,098,565 33
1805 12,936,487 04
1806 14,667,698 17
1807 15,845,521 61
1808 16,363,550 58
1800

779,136 44

41,000

809,396 55
1,048,033 43
621,898 89
215,179 69
50.941 29
21,747 15

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34,732 56
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3,805 52 35,000

1,662,984 82,

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496,282 81

1,040,237 53 710,427 78 835,655 14 1,135,971 09 267,394 68

60,068 52
41,125 47
234,571 00
119,399 81
11.846 31

9,016,342 24

4,476,826 53 747 388 40 8,658,369 38

1,590,001 68 247,019,302 79

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

REGISTER'S OFFICE, January 25th. 1816,

JOSEPH NOURSE.

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