The Rhode Island Republican

London, Jan. 9.

The message of the President of the United States to Congress, received yesterday, which we have inserted in another part of our paper, will, we have no doubt, be read with peculiar interest. From a press of matter we can merely at present allude to this very important state-paper. Whilst the finances of all the governments of Europe are more or less disordered and the subjects are everywhere ground down with heavy taxes, we find the head of those republicans, at the close of an expensive war, proposing the repeal of all the internal taxes. After satisfying he says, "the appropriations made by the support of the civil government, and of the military and naval establishments, embracing suitable provisions for fortifications, and for the gradual increase of the navy, paying the interest of the public debt, extinguishing more than eighteen millions of the principal within the present year, it is estimated that a balance of more than six millions of dollars will remain in the treasury on the 1st of January next, applicable to the current service of the ensuing year. The payments into the treasury in 1818, on account of duties on imports and tonnage, are estimated at twenty millions of dollars—a sum which gives a high idea of the resources of this rising state, towards which the nations of Europe have for some time cast their eyes as a future counterpoise to our maritime greatness." One thing must strike every Englishman more particularly, in this speech, namely, the enlightened view which the government of the United States takes of the true interest of the people, to whom it is responsible, compared with the views of our own government. It is aware in what way the strength of the state can be most profitably directed and accordingly we hear of naval establishments, and a gradual increase of the navy; and, though the United States, from their extensive land frontier, are under the necessity of keeping up a number of military posts, their army is wisely a secondary object. We do not hear that the president has yet contracted a taste for splendid hussar uniform.

Whilst our government is endeavoring to corrupt the morals of the people by the wicked artifices sanctioned by the lottery acts, we see the American government occupying itself with the institution of seminaries of learning, for the all-important purpose of diffusing knowledge among its citizens.