It is proper to add that there is now due to the Treasury for the sale of public lands $22,996,545.

The contest between Spain and the colonies, according to the most authentic information, is maintained by the latter with improved success.

Considerable progress has been made during the present season in examining the coast and its various bays and other inlets.

In execution of the law of the last session for the suppression of the slave trade some of our public ships have also been employed on the coast of Africa, where several captures have already been made of vessels engaged in that…

Considerable progress has also been made in the construction of ships of war, some of which have been launched in the course of the present year.

Our military positions have been maintained at Belle Point, on the Arkansas, at Council Bluffs, on the Missouri, at St. Peters, on the Mississippi, and at Green Bay, on the upper Lakes.

Our peace with the powers on the coast of Barbary has been preserved, but we owe it altogether to the presence of our squadron in the Mediterranean.

Among these none holds a more important place than the public revenue.

A few prominent facts will place this great interest in a just light before you.

Happy as our situation is, it does not exempt us from solicitude and care for the future.

I see much cause to rejoice in the felicity of our situation.

On the subject of claims of citizens of the United States for Spanish spoliations upon their property and commerce.

I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State

collected conformably to a resolution of the Senate of the 18th of January, 1819

together with the returns of causes depending in the courts of the United States

Unexpected as such complaints and such a demand were under existing circumstances, it was thought proper, without compromitting the Government as to the course to be pursued, to meet them promptly and to give the explanations that were…

He admits that the other objections are essentially removed and will not in themselves prevent the ratification, provided the difficulty on the third point is surmounted.

It appears, however, that the treaty is still unratified and that the minister has no authority to surrender the territory.