formed, has been productive of the greatest benefits, and which has given almost universal satisfaction; for it has, in those Courts where such Judges preside, produced that real equality under the Law, which is the object of every reasonable Legislation. In order to obtain these objects, a modification of some of the provisions of the Constitutional Charter will be called for, in the mode prescribed by the Charter itself. These, in due time, I shall submit to the consideration of Parliament.

Your are aware Mr. President and Gentlemen, that the Office of the Supreme Council of Justice lapses during the Session. It appears to me essential that it should be renewed, and I shall have the honour to make the necessary communication to the Assembly to this effect.

I am now to call your attention to one of the most important objects which can occupy the deliberations of this Assembly. I mean the Publick Instruction of the Youth of these Islands. I cannot approach this subject, Mr. President and Gentlemen, without adverting to the severe loss which the whole Ionian Population has experienced by the death of the illustrious Chancellor of its University; I say the whole Ionian Population, for, I am sure, there is not one amongst you, who does not feel that the intentions of that beneficent Nobleman embraced the advantage of all ranks and degrees of these Islands, if his benevolence did not, indeed, extend itself much beyond the limits of these Islands, and embrace within its sphere the improvement of the Youth of all Greece. You have seen him sacrificing his time, his fortune, and his health, to the praise-worthy and philanthropic object of extending Education. Gratitude to such a benefactor must be indelible, and the memory of the Earl of Guilford will be handed down to the latest posterity as the object of reverence, and affection of the whole Ionian People.

We have, Mr. President, and Gentlemen, been deprived of the assistance of his enlightened mind; and the state in which the education of the Ionian Youth has been left calls for the attention of Parliament.

I am confident that this Assembly, equally with the Executive Government, and myself, (acting as I am in conformity with the views of my gracious Sovereign,) will concur in maintaining, under the modifications, and reforms, called for by our circumstances, and by the state of our Finances, what has already been begun. With this view I shall call upon the Executive Government to present for your consideration a Bill, fixing the principles on which the University is henceforward to be conducted, and rendered practically useful, as well as settling the superintendence under which that Institution is to be carried on; and also the mode of establishing without delay, and conducting in each of the Islands, Schools for a liberal elementary education, in proportion to the respective wants of the various Islands-a measure which I am confident will, if properly conducted, be eminently useful.

I shall at the same time lay before you what may be necessary for the extension of the Schools of mutual instruction for the education of the Peasantry and the labouring Classes-an object of very great importance.

Upon the subject of these latter Institutions, I will not abstain from bestowing that praise, which has been so well deserved by the Local Government of the Island of Cerigo, where, in the Town and almost every District of the Country, excellent Schools have been established, and are producing the most beneficial effects. The Dominant Church of these States has, during the recess of Parliament, been deprived of two of its highest Dignitaries, by the death of the lamented Archbishops of Corfu and Zante. It is a matter of sincere regret to me that these high Offices should still remain unoccupied, but this has been unavoidable. The state of things at Constantinople precluded the necessary application to the Patriarch, through the Ambassador of the Protecting Sovereign. Should this continue, it may become necessary to proceed to filling up the Offices under the alternative provided for by the Legislative Enactment passed in 1825.

I cannot close this Address without expressing to you the favourable impressions which exist on my mind as to the conduct of his Highness the late President of the Senate, and of that illustrious Body, as well as of every branch of the Government during the whole Quinquennium ; nor can I pass under silence the admirable conduct of the whole Population of these States during so considerable a period of time.

The same principles of moderation will, I am satisfied, pervade all operations of the Government which has now been installed; and as it has been my good fortune on more than one occasion to bring this most gratifying view of our situation under the notice of the King, my Sovereign and Master, so I anticipate with the firmest confidence that, during the third Parliament, His Majesty will have occasion to notice the continuance of the equally praiseworthy conduct of his protected Subjects; and thus have irrefragable proofs how well founded is the deep interest he takes in the welfare of the Ionian People, whose prosperity is an object of his most lively solicitude, as sole and exclusive Protector of these States.

TREATY of Limits between The United States and the Creek Indians.-Signed the 15th November, 1827.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WHEREAS a Treaty between the United States of America, and the Creek Nation of Indians, was made and concluded on the 15th day of

November, in the Year of our Lord 1827, at the Creek Agency, by Commissioners on the part of The United States, and the Chiefs of said Nation, on the part, and in behalf of said Nation; which Treaty is in the words following, to wit:

Articles of Agreement made and concluded at the Creek Agency, on the 15th day of November, 1827, between Thomas L. M'Kenney and John Crowell, in behalf of The United States, of the one part, and Little Prince and others, Chief and Head Men of the Creek Nation, of the other part.

Whereas a Treaty of Cession was concluded at Washington City, in the District of Columbia, by James Barbour, Secretary of War, of the one part, and Opothleoholo, John Stidham, and others, of the other part, and which Treaty bears date the 24th day of January, 1826, and whereas the object of said Treaty being to embrace a Cession, by the Creek Nation, of all the lands owned by them within the chartered limits of Georgia, and it having been the opinion of the parties, at the time when said Treaty was concluded, that all, or nearly all, of said lands were embraced in said Cession, and by the lines as defined in said Treaty, and the Supplemental Article thereto; and whereas it having been since ascertained that the said lines in said Treaty, and the Supplement thereto, do not embrace all the Lands owned by the Creek Nation within the Chartered limits of Georgia, and the President of The United States having urged the Creek Nation further to extend the limits as defined in the Treaty aforesaid, and the Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek Nation being desirous of complying with the wish of the President of The United States; therefore, they, the Chiefs and Head Men aforesaid, agree to cede, and they do hereby cede, to The United States, all the remaining Lands now owned or claimed by the Creek Nation, not heretofore ceded, and which, on actual survey, may be found to lie within the chartered limits of the State of Georgia.

In consideration whereof, and in full compensation for the above Cession, the undersigned, Thomas L. McKenney and John Crowell, in behalf of The United States, do hereby agree to pay to the Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek Nation aforesaid, and as soon as may be, after the approval and Ratification of this Agreement, in the usual forms, by the President and Senate of The United States, and its sanction by a Council of the Creek Nation, to be immediately convened for the purpose, or by the subscription of such names, in addition to those subscribed to this Instrument, of Chiefs and Head Men of the Nation, as shall constitute it the Act of the Creek Nation, the sum of 27,491 dollars.

It is further agreed by the Parties hereto, in behalf of The United States, to allow, on account of the Cession herein made, the additional sum of 15,000 dollars, it being the understanding of both the Parties,

that 5000 dollars of this sum shall be applied, under the direction of the President of The United States, towards the education and support of Creek Children, at the School in Kentucky, known by the title of the "Choctaw Academy," and under the existing regulations; also, 1000 dollars towards the support of the Withington, and 1000 dollars towards the support of the Asbury Stations, so called, both being Schools in the Creek Nation, and under regulations of the Department of War; 2000 dollars for the erection of 4 horse mills, to be suitably located under the direction of the President of The United States; 1000 dollars to be applied to the purchase of Cards and Wheels, for the use of the Creeks; and the remaining 5000 dollars, it is agreed shall be paid in blankets and other necessary and useful goods, immediately after the signing and delivery of these presents.

In witness whereof, the Parties have hereunto set their Hands and Seals, this 15th day of November, 1827.

Signed by

THOMAS L. M KENNEY.
JOHN CROWELL.

[And by 6 Chiefs of Indians.]

Whereas the above Articles of Agreement and Cession were entered into at the Creek Agency, on the day and date therein mentioned, between the Little Prince, the Head Man of the Nation, and 5 other Chiefs, and Thomas L. M'Kenney and John Crowell, Commissioners on the part of The United States, for the Cession of all the Lands owned or claimed by the Creek Nation, and not heretofore ceded, and which, on actual Survey, may be found to lie within the chartered limits of the State of Georgia, and which said Agreement was made subject to the approval and Ratification by the President and Senate of The United States, and the approval and sanction of the Creek Nation, in General Council of the said Nation.

Now, these presents witnesseth, that We, the undersigned Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek Nation, in General Council convened, at Wetumph, the 3rd day of January, 1828, have agreed and stipulated with John Crowell, Commissioner on the part of The United States, for, and in consideration of the additional sum of 5000 dollars, to be paid to us in blankets, and other necessary articles of clothing, immediately after the signing and sealing of these presents, to sanction, and by these presents do hereby approve, sanction, and ratify, the abovementioned and foregoing Articles of Agreement and Cession.

In witness whereof the Parties have hereunto set their Hands and Seals, the day and date abovementioned.

[And by 60 Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek Nation.] Now, therefore, be it known, that I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said

Treaty, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed by their Resolution of the 26th of February last, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every Clause and Article thereof.

In Testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of The United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my Hand. Done at the City of Washington, this 4th day of March, 1828, and of the Independence of The United States the 52d.

By the President:

H. CLAY, Secretary of State.

J. Q. ADAMS.

CORRESPONDENCE between the Officers commanding the Naval Forces of Brazil and The United States, off Buenos Ayres, respecting the exclusion of Neutral Ships of War from Blockaded Ports.-November, December, 1827.

(1.) The Brazilian Admiral to Commodore Biddle.-(Translation.)

H.I. M. Frigate Piranga, 10th November, 1827.

THE Undersigned has the honour to thank his Excellency Commodore Biddle, for the polite message of compliments sent him this morning, which he duly reciprocates.

His Excellency Commodore Biddle having at the same time, requested that the Pilot, (o Piloto practino,) of the Rio de la Plata be lent to bring the Frigate Macedonian near the Harbour, and also to conduct the Corvette Boston to the Port of Buenos Ayres, the Undersigned conceives it his duty to make some observations to his Excellency Commodore Biddle, with regard to the second object. In consequence of the War between the Empire of Brazil and the Republick of Buenos Ayres, His Imperial Majesty declared the Ports of his Enemies within the Rio de la Plata, under Blockade. And Blockades, (Declaration of War having preceded, whence alone that right can be derived) it has been constantly admitted by all Nations, should not be violated by our Vessels of War. From this general consent, by natural consequences, the practice to the contrary is regarded as a positive offence-and it does not seem reasonable, (the two Nations, Brazil and The United States, being as yet amicable, and each Party endeavouring to continue so,) that this state of things should be altered, without, perchance, there appearing to be any necessity for such a misunderstanding.

The Undersigned, desiring to obviate, as much as possible, a measure that may excite discord, and at the same time to improve the occasion of having it in his power to render the Government of The