mercies of the wicked are cruel." It would be well if such would timely consider that God is able, and that God will sooner or later, call them to an account for their conduct. CHAP. XXXÍ. Commerce of the United States. Annual Statement of the Treasury Department, showing the commerce and Navigation of the United States, for the year ending 30th. September 1832. Value of, subject to specific rate of duty Do. ad valorem do. Free of duty, D29,458,823 4,543,609d34,002,432 47,944,096 4,833,285 | 52,777,381 12,895,310 1 354,143, 14,249,453 D90,298,229,10,731,037 101,029,266 Total value of Imports, 1830-31 D 103,191,124 Ditto. Domestic Articles.. Foreign ditto Increase ..1829-30 70,876,920 D 32,311,204 Exports. Total value of exports in 1830-31 .. D 81,310, 583 73,849, 508) }D 7,461,075 American Foreign Tons 949,622 393,038 922,952 281,948 967,227|131,900 Register tonnage, as corrected for 62,045,194 31st December, 1831.. Enrolled and Licensed Tonnage. ..53.972,372 10,767,053 Tons 126,784,619 Register Tonnage employed in the Whale Fishery, in cluded above, 8,231,419. Previous year, register tonnage, 57,647,533. Enrolled and licensed, 51,697,818. fishing vessels, 9,832,287. Total 119,177,638. Tonnage of vessels built in 1831 Registered ..4,572,088 4,024,170 Tons..8,596,258 In 1830, register tonnage built, 2,124,271; enrolled 3,684,148. Total 5,808,419. Imports of some of the principal Manufactures. 1831. 1832. Manufactures of Wool, D. 12,668,028 D. 9,494,485 Do. Cotton D. 16,090,224 D. 11,031,972 Do. Flax and Hemp D. 5,248,294 D. 5,030,573 D. 10,904,399 D. 9,147,712 Do. Silk CHAP. XXXII. Mint of the United States. PHILADELPHIA Samuel Moore, Director Coinage in 1832. Half Eagles....gold.. Salary. ..2,000 .1,200 ..1,500 .1,500 . 1,500 1,200 Dollars. 157,487 pieces.. 787,435 Quarter do... do. 320,000 do. 80,000 Disies do. 522,500 do. 52,250 Half do. do. 965,000 do. 48,250 Cents ..Copper ..2,362,000 do. 23,620 Total 9,12,387 3,401,055 Quarter Eagles gold.. 4,400 do. Half Dollars.. silver..4,797,000 do. Receipts of the gold coined, viz. United States. From Virginia... North Carolina.. South Carolina. 34,000 458,000 45,000 Receipts of gold at the Mint from, the gold mines of the United States, for various years. The amount received from 1804 to 1823 did not exceed D. 2,500 annually. Exports of United States Gold and Silver coin to Foreign countries. CHARTERED IN 1816 FOR 20 YEARS. Capital D. 35,000,000, of which the United States Dwn 7,000,000. Nicholas Biddle, President Samuel Jaudon, Cashier Philadelphia. DIRECTORS. Samuel Alley of New York, do. John T. Sullivan do Appointed by the President and Senate of the United States Elected by the Stockholders, January, 1833. Nicholas Biddle, Richard Willing, Manuel Eyre, Matthew L. Bevan, Ambrose White, John S. Henry, John Sergeant, James C. Fisher, Joshua Lippincott, Charles Chauncey, Matthew Newkirk, Charles, Macalister, and Lawrence Lewis, of Philadelphia. John Potter, of South Carolina. Robert Gilmer and John M' Kim, Junr. of Maryland. John Welles, of Massachusets. Robert Lenox and John Rathbone Jun. of New York The above is now of very little importance as the charter is ended or nearly so; and other persons are about to take the management: yet as a matter of history, to some it may be acceptable to know who the men were that gave their country so much trouble by doing what they could to cripple commerce and slander the President, when he wisely refused to renew the charter. Vessels of War of the United States Navy.-1833 Name and Rate. Ships of line.-guns, Franklin.. Washington .74 Columbus Ohio Where and when built. Independence, .74 Boston ......1814 .74 Philadelphia, 1815 Portsmouth N. H.j 1816 .74 Washington ..1819 .74 New York....1820 North Carolina..74 Philadelphia..1820 Delaware ......74 Gosport, Virg. 1820 Where employed. In ordinary at Boston Ditto at New York Do. at New York Do. at Boston Do. at New York Do. at Gosport Do. at Gosport On the stocks at Portsmouth N. H. Do. at Boston Do. at Boston Do. at Philadelphia Do. at Norfolk |