Thomas Jefferson: “This conduct on the part of that power is without cause and without explanation.”

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.

The letter of Mr. Canning, however, having lately appeared in print, unaccompanied by that of Mr. Pinkney in reply, and having a tendency to make impressions not warranted by the statements of Mr. Pinkney, it has become proper that the…

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