I communicate to Congress copies of a correspondence between the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain and the Secretary of State relative to the aggression committed by a British ship of war on the United States frigate Chesapeake.
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I lose no time, therefore, in submitting the treaty to the Senate for their advice and approbation.
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