Thomas Jefferson: “We may now estimate with tolerable certainty the means derived from the Ohio and its waters toward the accomplishment of…”

I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.

According to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, I now transmit them the information therein requested, respecting the execution of the act of Congress of February 21, 1806, appropriating $2,000,000 for defraying any…

$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.

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.