With great regret I found it was not to be accomplished.
Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged with that duty.
I can not, therefore, but recommend the suspension of this act for a reasonable time, on considerations of justice, amity, and the public in...
It is, however, a work of time, as many arrangements are necessary to place our future harmony on stable grounds.
I have the satisfaction to inform you that the negotiation depending between the United States and the Government of Great Britain is procee...
A step so friendly will afford further evidence that all our proceedings have flowed from views of justice and conciliation.
I require all good and faithful citizens and others within the United States to be aiding and assisting herein, and especially in the discov...
I have therefore thought proper to issue this my proclamation, warning and enjoining all faithful citizens who have been led without due kno...
And I hereby enjoin and require all officers, civil and military, of the United States, or of any of the States or Territories, and especial...
And I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office, civil or military, within the United States, and all others citizens or inhab...
And I do declare and make known that if any person from or within the jurisdictional limits of the United States shall afford any aid to eit...
Now, therefore, to the end that the said Henry Whitby may be brought to justice and due punishment inflicted for the said murder, I do hereb...
And if the said vessels, or any of them, shall fail to depart as aforesaid, or shall reenter the harbors or waters aforesaid, I do in that c...
And I do hereby further require that the said armed vessel the Leander, with her officers and people, and the said armed vessels the Cambria...
And I do forever interdict the entrance of all other vessels which shall be commanded by the said Henry Whitby, John Nairne, and Slingsby Si...
James Houston, of Maryland, to be judge of the court of the United States for the district of Maryland.
Willis W. Porker, of Virginia, to be collector of the district and inspector of the revenue for the port of South Quay.
To the Senate of the United States: I nominate James Monroe, now minister plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of London.
