Thomas Jefferson actually said...

James Houston, of Maryland, to be judge of the court of the United States for the district of Maryland.

To the Senate of the United States: I nominate James Monroe, now minister plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of London.

the only remaining cause of difference brought forward by him is the requisition of a present of naval stores to secure a peace for three ye...

But this demand has been pressed in verbal conferences much more explicitly and pertinaciously than appears in the written correspondence.