WEST-INDIES.

The total amount of notes issued by the Bank and its branches, has been $19,854,881, and the amount of said notes now on hand at the Bank and its branches, is $11,184,189.

So that there remain in circulation notes to the amount of $8,670,692 only.

The following persons were, on the 4th of January, appointed by the stockholders to be Directors of the Bank of the United States for the ensuing year:-William Jones, James C. Fisher, John Sergeant; John Bolton, of Savannah; Joshua Lippincott, John Coulter, John Lisle, John Connell, Daniel Lammot, Gustavus Calhoun, Charles Chauncey, Joseph Dugan, James Schott, Henry Toland; Langdon Cheves, John Potter,

of South-Carolina; John Oliver, George Williams, George Hoffman, of Baltimore; and Archibald Gracie, of New-York. William Jones has been unanimously reelected president.

Since the report of the committee, Mr. Jones has resigned.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

Senate.

Thursday, Dec. 24th. Mr. Sanford presented the memorial of the New-York Society for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated; which was read and referred to a committee on the subject of slaves.

The bill making appropriations for the support of the navy, for 1319, and the bill for the relief of Renner and Heath, were read a sccond time and committed.

The Senate adjourned to Monday.

Monday, Dec. 28th. The Senate was employed in the consideration of executive business, with closed doors.

Tuesday, Dec. 29th. The same as yesterday.

Wednesday, Dec. 30th. The Senate resumed the consideration of the following resolution, offered by Mr. Roberts on the 29th inst, and agreed thereto :

Resolved, That the committee on naval affairs be, and they are hereby instructed to inquire whether the rules, regulations, and instructions for the naval service of the United States, communicated to the Senate by the message of the President, of the 20th April last, are conformable to the provisions of the act, entitled "An act to alter and amend the several acts for establishing a Navy Department," by adding thereto a Board of Navy Commissioners; and whether or not they inconveniently interfere with other acts of Congress, relating to the naval establishment, and how far they may ap pear to be expedient; and also whether any, and, if any, what legislative provision may be necessary to give them the force and effect of law.

The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of executive business.

Thursday, Dec. 31st. The death of a member of the other House being announced, the Senate adjourned till Monday next.

Monday, Jan. 4th. The following message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. J. J. Monroe, his private secretary.

To the Senate of the United States.

I lay before the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied with a copy of a letter from Governor Rabun, which was

not communicated on a former occasion from that department.

Jan. 4, 1819.

JAMES MONROE.

The message and accompanying documents were read, and four hundred copies thereof ordered to be printed.

tions, which were agreed to: Mr. Mercer submitted the following resolu

directed to report to this house a copy of such Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be instructions, if any, as may have been issued by his department, in pursuance of the act of Congress of 1807, prohibiting the importation

of slaves, to the commanders of the armed vessels of the United States, for the purpose of intercepting, on the coast of Africa, or elsewhere, such vessels as have been engaged in the slave trade.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to this house the number and names of the slave ships, if any, which have been seized and condemned, within the United States, for violation of the laws thereof against the importation of slaves, and if any negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, have been found on board such vessels, their number, and the disposition which has been made of them by the several state governments under whose jurisdiction they have fallen.

Tuesday, Jan. 5th. Mr. Sanford, from the committee of commerce and manufactures, to whom was referred the memorial of the Goversors of the New-York Hospital, reported a bill to provide for the relief of sick and disabled seamen," which was read.

Wednesday, Jan. 6th. The bills more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, were reported by Mr. Burrill, from the judiciary committee, the former with, the latter without amendments. Thursday, Jan. 7th. The bills to incorporate the Medical Society and Provident Association; the bill authorizing the Corporation of Washington to make certain streets; and the Rockyville Road bill, were severally read a second time, and referred to the committee on the District of Columbia.

The bill to extend the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States to cases arising out of the law of patents, was read a second time. Friday, Jan. 8th. Mr. Johnson, from the committee on the public lands, reported a bill for adjusting the claims to land, and for establishing land offices in the districts east of the island of Orleans, which was read.

Mr. Goldsborough, agreeably to notice, obtained leave and introduced a bill to amend the charter of the City of Washington; which was read.

Monday, Jan. 11th. The bill prescribing the mode of commencing, prosecuting, and deciding controversies between two or more states, was, on motion of Mr. Crittenden, recommitted to the committee that reported it: and

Mr. Otis submitted the following motion for consideration:

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate any information in his possession, and which, in his opinion, the public interest may permit to be disclosed, relating to the seizure and detention of the property of American citizens by the government of the island of Hayti, and the statement of any negotiation, or attempts at negotiation, to procure restitution.

Tuesday, Jan. 12th. Mr. Burrill, from the committee on the judiciary, to whom was recommitted the bill prescribing the mode of commencing, prosecuting, and deciding controversies between two or more states, reported the same with an amendment, not affecting the principle of the bill

The engrossed bill to enable the people of the Alabama territory to form a state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, was read the third time, passed, and sent to the other House for concurrence.

Mr. Morrow, from the committee on the public lands, reported a bill providing for a grant of land for the seat of government of the state of Mississippi, and for the support of a seminary of learning within the said state, which was read.

Wednesday, Jan. 13th. The bill to suspend, for a further limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands, for failure in making the payments, was read the third time, passed, and sent to the other House for concurrence.

The President communicated to the Senate a letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the annual statement of the expenditure and application of moneys drawn from the treasury, by the Secretary of War, for the military estab. lishment, during the last fiscal year.

The Senate then resumed the consideration of the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution, so as to produce an uniform mode (by districts), throughout the several states, of electing electors of President and Vice President of the United States, and Representatives to Congress, which was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Thursday, Jan. 14th. Mr. Forsyth offered for consideration the following resolution :

Resolved, That the judiciary committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prescribing, by law, the mode of quartering soldiers, during war, in the houses of citizens, when the public exigencies may make it necessary, and the mode by which private property may be taken for public use, designating particularly by whose orders property may be taken, the manner of ascertaining its value, and the mode by which the owner shall receive, with the least possible delay, the just compensation for the same, to which he is entitled by the Constitution of the United States.

The bill concerning the organization of the courts of the United States, for the establishing of a district supreme court, and the appointment of new circuit judges; ordered to a third reading.

Friday, Jan. 15th. Mr. Goldsborough, from the committee on the subject, reported a bill respecting the erection of an equestrian statue in honour of the memory of Gen. Washington.

Monday, Jan. 18th. The bill providing for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States, was passed and sent to the House for concurrence.

Tuesday, Jan. 19th. Nothing important was done to-day.

Wednesday, Jan. 20th. No business of importance was transacted to-day.

Thursday, Jan. 21st. Mr. Williams, of Tennessee, from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill for the better organization of the military academy, which was read.

The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of executive business.

Friday, Jan. 22d. Mr. Tait, from the committee on naval affairs, reported the bill making appropriations for the support of the navy for the year 1819, with some amendments; which were read.

Mr. Stokes, from the committee on the post office and post roads, reported a bill to repeal that part of the act of 1813, regulating the postoffice establishment, which provides that "contracts shall secure the regular transportation of the mail throughout each year;" which was read.

$73,854,437 19,426,696

House of Representatives. Thursday, Dec. 24th. On motion of Mr. Cobb, it was

I have the honour to be, &c.

WM. H. CRAWFORD.

to this House on the 12th instant.

The engrossed bill to authorize the payment, in certain cases, on account of treasury notes which have been lost or destroyed, and the engrossed bill authorizing the election of a Delegate from the Michigan Territory to the Congress of the United States, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of the said territory, were read a third time, passed, and sent to the Senate.

The resolution from the Senate, directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of NorthCarolina, was read a third time and passed,

And the House adjourned to Monday. Monday, Dec. 28th. Nothing of importance was done to-day.

Tuesday, Dec. 29th. Mr. H. Nelson, from the judiciary committee, to whom had been referred the letter of the Sergeant at Arms, respecting the suit commenced against him by John Anderson, reported a resolution authorizing and requesting the Speaker to employ such counsel as he may think proper, to defend the suit brought by John Anderson against the said Thomas Dunn, and that the expences be defrayed out of the contingent fund of the House: which resolution was concurred in.

Wednesday, Dec. 30th. Nothing important was transacted to-day.

Thursday, Dec. 31st. The death of the Hon. George Mumford, from North-Carolina, being announced, the House adjourned till Monday

next.

Monday, Jan. 4th. The Speaker laid before the House the following letter from the Secretary of the Treasury:

Treasury Department, Jan. 1, 1819. Sir: I have the honour to transmit a statement of the exports of the United States, during the year ending the 30th September, 1818, amounting in value, in articles of

Domestic Produce and Manufac-
ture, to
Foreign do. do.

$73,854,437

19,426,696 $93,281,133

Which articles appear to have been exported to the following countries, viz.

To the Northern coun

Domestic. Foreign.

tries of Europe, $1,554,259 1,081,424

The letter, with its enclosures, were ordered to be printed.

Tuesday, Jan. 5th. Nothing of importance was done to-day.

committee upon the bill making appropriations Wednesday, Jan. 6th. The House went into for the support of the military establishment for

1819.

The bill in question embraces the following items of appropriation:

For subsistence, (in addition to 200,000 dollars already appropriated,) 506,600 dollars For forage for officers, 26,496 dollars. For clothing, 400,000 dollars.

For bounties and premiums, 62,500 dollars. For the medical and hospital department, 50,000 dollars.

For the quarter-master's department, 550,000 dollars.

For contingencies of the army, 60,000 dollars. the appropriation to pay outstanding claims, For arrearages, arising from a deficiency in 100,000 dollars.

For fortifications, 500,000 dollars.

For making a survey of the water courses those tributary to the same river, and northwest tributary to, and west of the Mississippi; also

of the Ohio, 6,500 dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance department, 100,000 dollars.

For the armories at Springfield and Harper's Ferry, 375,000 dollars.

For arming and equipping the militia, 200,000 dollars.

For the erection and completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, der magazine at Frankford, near Philadelphia, in Georgia, 50,000 dollars; for erecting a pow15,000 dollars; for completing the arsenal and dollars; for completing the arsenal and other other works at Watertown, near Boston, 20,000 works at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 5,000 dollars; for a levee round the arsenal at Watervliet, New-York, 6,000 dollars, for building a powder magazine at Baton Rouge, 20,000 dol

lars.

To the dominions of the
Netherlands,
Da. of Great Britain,
Do. of France,
Do. of Spain,

Do. of Portugal,

10,666,798 3,283,791 4,589,661 2,967,252 2,650,019 248,158

For the payment of half-pay pensions to wi> dows and orphans, 200,000 dollars.

For the annual allowance to invalid pensioners of the United States, 368,039 dollars.

For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the law of March 18, 1818, 1,703,500 dollars.

For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for paying the revolutionary pensions in the year 1818, 139,400 dollars and 85 cents.

For the Indian Department, including arrearages incurred by holding Indian treaties, 213,000 dollars.

For annuity to the Creek nation, under the treaty of 1802, 3,000 dollars.

Thursday, Jan. 7th. Mr. Livermore, from the committee on post-offices and post-roads, reported a bill to increase the compensation of the Assistant Postmaster-Generals, which was twice read and committed.

The House then resumed the consideration of the appropriation bill.

Friday, Jan. 8th. Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, from the committee on roads and canals, reported a bill to appropriate a fund for internal improvements; which bill was twice read and committed.

The House then took up the bill amending the military establishment of the United States. Monday, Jan. 11th. The Speaker laid before the House three letters from the Secretary of the Navy, enclosing a statement of contracts made by the Commissioners of the Navy, during the year 1818; a sta ment containing the names and salaries of the clerks employed in the Navy Department, during the year 1818; and a statement of the expenditures and application of the moneys drawn from the Treasury on account of the Navy, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1818, and of the unexpended balances of former appropriations remaining in the Treasury on the 1st October, 1818; which were ordered to lie on the table.

The appropriation bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

Tuesday, Jan, 12th. Mr. T. M. Nelson delivered a report from the committee on military affairs, accompanied with the following resolution :

Resolved, That the House of Representatives of the United States disapproves the proceedings in the trial and execution of Alexander Arbuthnot, and Robert C. Ambrister.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, also of the military committee, submitted a paper drawn up in the shape of the report, which, by a majority of one vote, that committee had refused, and the said paper was read. Afterwards, on motion of Mr. Cobb, both papers were referred to a committee of the whole on the state of the Union.

The bill making appropriations for the support of the military establishment for the year 1819, was read the third time; and the question on its passage was decided, by yeas and nays, in the affirmative, by a vote of 107 to 57.

Wednesday, Jan. 13th. Mr. Middleton, from the committee on that part of the President's message which relates to the illicit introduction of slaves, reported a bill "in addition to the act for the prohibition of the slave trade;" which was twice read and committed.

The bill authorizing the payment of a sum of money to the officers and crews of gun-boats 149 and 154, was taken up in committee, Mr. Desha in the chair, the blank filled with 5482 dollars, and the bill ordered by the House to be engrossed.

The bill to enable the people of the Alabama territory to form a state government, and the bill to suspend, for a further limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands, for failure in completing the payments, were received from the Senate, severally twice read and committed.

Thursday, Jan. 14th. Mr. Smith reported a bill to amend the act "to continue in force the act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes," passed the 3d day of March, 1817; which was twice read and committed.

The bill authorizing the payment of a sum of money to the officers and crews of gun-boats 149 and 154, was passed, and sent to the Senate for concurrence.

Friday, Jan. 15th. The House, after some unimportant motions, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on Mr. Harrison's bill to provide for the organization and discipline of the militia.

Saturday, Jan. 16th. Mr. Spencer, from the bank committee, reported, that the charter of the bank has been violated in the following instances:

1. In purchasing two millions of public debt, in order to substitute them for two other millions of similar debt, which it had contracted to sell, or had sold in Europe, and which the Secretary of the Treasury claimed the right of redeeming. The facts on this subject, and the views of the transaction entertained by the committee, have been already given.

2. In not requiring the fulfilment of the engagement made by the stockholders on subscribing, to pay the second and third instalments on the stock in coin and funded debt. The facts on this point are fully before the House, and they establish, beyond all doubt, 1st, that the directors of the bank agreed to receive, and did receive what they deemed an equivalent for coin, in checks upon, and the notes of the bank and other banks supposed to pay specie. This substitution of any equivalent whatever, for the specific things required by the charter, was in itself a departure from its provisions; but, 2d, the notes and checks thus received were not, in all cases, equivalent to coin, because there was not specie to meet them in the bank; 3d. that notes of individuals were discounted and taken in lieu of the coin part of the second instalment, by virtue of a resolution for that purpose, passed before that instalment became due; 4th, that the notes of individuals were taken in many instances, and to large amounts, in lieu of the whole of the second and third instalments, which notes are yet unpaid.

3. In paying dividends to stockholders who had not completed their instalments, the provisions of the charter in that respect were violated.

4. By the judges of the first and second election allowing many persons to give more than thirty votes each, under the pretence of their being attorneys for persons in whose names shares then stood, when those judges, the directors and officers of the bank, perfectly well knew that those shares really belonged to the persons offering to vote upon them as attorneys. The facts in respect to this violation are in possession of the House, and establish it beyond the reach of doubt.

This report was accompanied with a bill regulating the election of the directors.

Monday, Jan. 18th. Mr. Smith, of Maryland, from the committee of ways and means, reported a bill relative to the direct tax and in

ternal duties, and a bill supplementary to the act" for the prompt settlement of public ac counts;" which were twice read and committed. The House then proceeded to the consideration of the report of the military committee respecting the Seminole war.

Tuesday, Jan. 19th. The House was occupied to-day in considering the reports of the bank and military committees.

Wednesiay, Jan. 20th. The House was employed as yesterday

Thursday, Jan 21st. The engrossed bill supplementary to the act to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts, was read the third time, passed, and sent to the Senate.

The House then again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Pleasants in the chair, on the report of the military committee on the subject of the Seminole war.

Friday, Jan. 22d. The bill from the Senate, "to provide for the more convenient organiza tion of the courts of the United States, and for the appointment of circuit Judges," was reported by Mr. H. Nelson, without amendment, and referred to a committee of the whole.

The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Pleasants in the chair, on the report of the military committee in regard to the conduct of the Seminole war.

MASSACHUSETTS.

THE Legislature met on the 13th January

ult. and proceeded to business. The number of entries, at the customhouse in Boston, of vessels from foreign ports, during the year 1818, was 855, and the clearances to foreign ports, for the same period, were 574. The smaller number of clearances is to be accounted for from the fact that many vessels, bound to foreign places, proceed to other ports in the United States to take in a part or the whole of their cargoes, yet discharge their return cargoes here. Consequently the clearances coastwise exceed the entries. The whole number of clearances coastwise, during the year, was 2082, and the number of entries 1831. Of the foreign clearances, 50 are bound to ports beyond the Cape of Good-Hope.

NEW-YORK.

The Legislature of New-York met at Albany on Tuesday, 5th January. The republican members of Assembly, 75 in fumber, met on Monday evening, for the pur pose of designating the several officers of the House. On balloting for Speaker, Wm. Thompson had 42 votes, and Obadiah German 33. It was then resolved, with one dissenting voice, "that this meeting pledge themselves to support William Thompson for Speaker of the House of Assembly." These proceedings are published under the signature of the chairman and secretary. Notwithstanding, on proceeding to the choice of Speaker in Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Thompson had, on the first balloting, but 45 votes, Mr. German 43, Mr. Duer 26, and there were three scattering. A second, third, and fourth balloting were had with no better success for Mr. Thompson than before, and the Assembly adjourned. On Wednesday. the ballots were taken for the fifth time, when Mr. German had 56 votes, Mr. Thompson 28, and 23 scattering. No choice being made, a motion was made that Mr. Thompson be appointed Speaker;" and the question being taken by yeas

and nays, 73 names were recorded against Mr. Thompson, including above 30 who had "pledged themselves" at the caucus to support him, and there were 41 yeas. On a motion to appoint Mr. German, there were 67 yeas and 48 nays; and he was accordingly chosen.

On Wednesday, Governor Clinton delivered his Speech to the two Houses. He gives a full exposition of the affairs of the state, particularly of the canal, and the various public institutions, all of which, not excepting the State Prisons, he represents as in a very flourishing condition.

A subscription has been opened by the citizens of New-York, for a piece of plate, with suitable devices, to be presented to William Willshire, the English consul at Mogadore, as a testimony of their admiration and gratitude for his prompt and zealous benevolence in redeeming from slavery, and restoring to their country, Captain James Riley, and five of his companions, citizens of America.

The condition of the northern canal ap-pears by the following statement, viz.

The excavation through the rocks at Whitehall-landing, for the locks, three in number, of 90 feet in length each, and 14 feet wide, embracing a lift of 26 feet, which reaches the summit level to Fort Ann, a distance of 11 miles, (excepting one small lift of four feet,) is nearly completed; and these locks will be finished by the first of October next. The earth excavation, made by Smith and Wheeler, is finished. The chambers for the locks at Fort Ann and Fort Edward are excavated, and a great part of the stone is collected. The lift at Fort Ann, to gain the summit level between Lake Champlain and the Hudson River, is about 24 feet, and the descent from that level to the Hudson, is about 30 feet. These locks are in such a state of forwardness, that it may be presumed they will be completed in all the month of September next. The excavation between Fort Ann upon Wood Creek, and Fort Edward upon the Hudson, a distance