A mission like this will announce to the world a solicitude for a friendly adjustment of our complaints and a reluctance to hostility.

I have thought proper to nominate, and do hereby nominate, John Jay as envoy extraordinary of the United States to His Britannic Majesty.

My confidence in our minister plenipotentiary in London continues undiminished.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I lay before you three letters from our minister in London, advices concerning the Algerine mission from our minister at Lisbon and others, and a letter from the minister…

GO. WASHINGTON.

I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerations, ought not to be communicated.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed by the government of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio on the 13th and 21st of March and the 7th of…

The condition of things in that quarter requires the serious and immediate consideration of Congress.

the strongest assurances have been given that his recall should be expedited without delay

his conduct has been unequivocally disapproved

An establishment of this nature, by securing a regular and punctual accountability for the issues of public supplies, would be a great guard against abuse.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:

Both justice and policy require that the source of that information should remain secret.

It is truly gratifying to me to learn that the proclamation has been considered as a seasonable guard against the interruption of the public peace.

For the fulfillment of your anticipations of the future I can give no other assurance than that the motives which you approve shall continue unchanged.

I shall not affect to conceal the cordial satisfaction which I derive from the address of the House of Representatives.

I think it my duty, therefore, to declare that I deem the nomination to have been null by the Constitution.

It has been agreed on the part of the United States that a treaty or conference shall be held at the ensuing season with the hostile Indians northwest of the Ohio.