Thomas Jefferson: “The other parts of the work, which might all have been completed in time, were necessarily retarded by the insufficient…”

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.

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.

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

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.