Thomas Jefferson: “Hospitality under such circumstances ceases to be a duty.”

The balance of $17,010 remains in the Treasury unexpended.

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

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.