Thomas Jefferson: “The offer was accepted and he was furnished with an accurate sextant for his observations.”

$2,000 were deposited in the hands of the Attorney-General of the United States to pay expenses incident to the prosecution of Aaron Burr and his accomplices for treason and misdemeanors alleged to have been committed by them.

I transmit to Congress a letter recently received from our minister at the Court of St. James, covering one to him from the British secretary of state, with his reply.

I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.

His high station and the relations of Russia to the predominant powers of Europe must give him weight with them according to the vicissitudes of the war.