To the Senate: I nominate Charles Ellery to be a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States, to take rank as if appointed the 29th of April, 1826.

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, containing the information and documents called for by a resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant.

I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of War 'of the survey of the Savannah and Tennessee rivers made in 1828.'

A treaty of commerce and navigation having been entered into between the United States and the Sublime Porte, it has been ratified with the advice and consent of the Senate; and my ratification having been exchanged in due form on the 5th…

I therefore nominate the said Hampton Westcott to be a lieutenant in the Navy of the United States from the 17th of May, 1828, his former date, and to take rank next after Richard R. McMullin.

To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 18th instant, I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of State, which, together with the letter of His Britannic Majesty's charge d'affaires…

containing the information required by the resolution of the House of the 5th instant

I transmit herewith reports from the Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments

in regard to the expenditures on breakwaters since 1815

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a copy of a correspondence between the late minister of Great Britain and the late Secretary of State of the United States on the subject of a claim of Cyrenius Hall.

That such legislative provision may be made in behalf of the claimant as shall appear just and proper in the case.

To the Senate of the United States: I herewith lay before the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification of the same, a treaty made on the 8th of August last with the Shawnee Indians.

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a report of the Secretary of State, respecting tonnage duties levied at Martinique and Guadaloupe on American vessels and on French vessels from those islands to the United States.

Since my message of the 7th instant, transmitting the award of the King of the Netherlands, I have received the official communication, then expected, of the determination of the British Government to abide by the award.

Believing, therefore, that the obligation devolved upon the nation, but having no funds at my disposal which I could think constitutionally applicable to the case, I have thought honor as well as justice required that the facts should be…

I had always determined, whatever might have been the result of the examination by the sovereign arbiter, to have submitted the same to the Senate for their advice before I executed or rejected it.

It is proper to add that in addition to the evidence derived from Mr. Preble's dispatches of the inclination of the British Government to abide by the award, assurances to the same effect have been uniformly made to our minister at London…

With the treaty are also transmitted the dispatch which accompanied it, and two others on the same subject received since.