Thomas Jefferson: “With great regret I found it was not to be accomplished.”

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.

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;

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.

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