The communications now made, shewing the great and increasing dangers with which our vessels, our seamen, and merchandise are threatened on the high seas and elsewhere from the belligerent powers of Europe.
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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.
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;
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.
I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.
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