I therefore required your attendance to receive nominations of the several officers necessary to put the Federal Government into motion in that State.

I have therefore thought it expedient to nominate Thomas Auldjo to be vice-consul for the United States at the port of Poole, in Great Britain.

I also nominate James Yard, of Pennsylvania, to be consul for the United States in the island of Santa Cruz.

The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention.

I will proceed to take measures for the ransom of our citizens in captivity at Algiers.

I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal.

I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal.

I have directed Mr. Morris to discontinue his communications with them.

I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informally into the conferences before mentioned.

I have received from the governor of Vermont authentic documents, expressing the consent of the legislatures of New York and of the Territory of Vermont that the said Territory shall be admitted to be a distinct member of our Union.

In order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers and the prospect of hostility in that quarter, I lay before you the intelligence of some recent depredations, received since my message to you upon this subject of…