Thomas Jefferson: “We have no information of this letter but through the channel of the party interested in the ship, nor any proof of it…”

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

His influence in negotiations for peace may be of value to the United States should arrangements of any sort affecting them be contemplated by other powers in the present extraordinary state of the world;

$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.

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.