I now lay before the Senate the several treaties and conventions following, which have been entered into on the part of the United States since their last session.

On these several treaties I have to request that the Senate will advise whether I shall ratify them or not.

The present crisis in Europe is favorable for pressing such a settlement, and not a moment should be lost in availing ourselves of it.

From that moment she seemed to change her conduct and dispositions toward us.

Before this convention was returned to Spain with our ratification the transfer of Louisiana by France to the United States took place, an event as unexpected as disagreeable to Spain.

Then high offense was manifested at the act of Congress establishing a collection district on the Mobile, although by an authentic declaration immediately made it was expressly confined to our acknowledged limits.

It was first manifested by her protest against the right of France to alienate Louisiana to us, which, however, was soon retracted and the right confirmed.

I have thought it my duty to await their authority for using force in any degree which could be avoided.

These made it a duty to require from that Government indemnifications for our injured citizens.

To them I communicate every fact material for their information and the documents necessary to enable them to judge for themselves.

To their wisdom, then, I look for the course I am to pursue, and will pursue with sincere zeal that which they shall approve.

She was prompt and decided in her declarations that our demands on Spain for French spoliations carried into Spanish ports were included in the settlement between the United States and France.

On this first occasion of addressing Congress since, by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term of administration, I embrace the opportunity to give this public assurance that I will exert my best endeavors to…

I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners of war.

Reason revolts at such inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question.

Although the health laws of the States should be found to need no present revisal by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be ever awake to them.

A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country, and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated as soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason shortly to…

The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.