In execution of the act of the present session of Congress for taking possession of Louisiana, as ceded to us by France,...
No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of $18,560 unexpended at the...
As the settlement of the boundaries of Louisiana will call for new negotiations on our receiving possession of that Prov...
I now communicate what has since passed on that subject.
The Senate will judge whether the prospect it offers will justify a longer suspension of that portion of indemnities con...
All differences in consequence thereof have been amicably adjusted, and the treaty of 1786 between this country and that...
The conduct of our officers generally who have had a part in these transactions has merited entire approbation.
The proper decision of Captain Bainbridge that a vessel which had committed an open hostility was of right to be detaine...
I recommend to the consideration of Congress a just indemnification for the interest acquired by the captors of the Mish...
The temperate and correct course pursued by our consul, Mr. Simpson.
And to these I add what was indeed transacted in another quarter--the gallant enterprise of Captain Rodgers in destroyin...
The efficacious cooperation of Captains Rodgers and Campbell, of the returning squadron.
The promptitude and energy of Commodore Preble.
In compliance with the desire of the Senate expressed in their resolution of the 22d of November, on the impressment of ...
You will be sensible, from the face of these papers, as well as of those to which they are a sequel, that they are not a...
It will inform them of the obligations which the United States thereby contract, and particularly that of taking the tri...
I now lay before them copies of such documents as are in possession of the Executive relative to the arrest and confinem...
I now communicate a digest of the information I have received relative to Louisiana, which may be useful to the Legislat...
