Thomas Jefferson: “I now lay before Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government.”

When the documents concerning the relations between the United States and Great Britain were laid before Congress at the commencement of the session, the answer of Mr. Pinkney to the letter of Mr. Canning had not been received.

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.

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

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.