Congress met in November.

On the 25th Mr.Gallatin sent in his annual report; the receipts reached thirteen and a half million dollars.
The budget for 1812 left a deficiency to be provided for of $1,200,000.
This was a small matter.

The revenue Mr.Gallatin proposed to increase, on the plan before recommended, by additions of fifty per cent, to the imposts on foreign commerce.

This he preferred to any internal tax.
At the close of the year the country, chafed beyond endurance by the indignities put upon it and the sufferings it encountered without compensation to its pride, was eager for war.

Congress was no way loath to try the dangerous path out of its labyrinth of blunders.