Thomas Jefferson: “Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to…”

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 have thought that the friendly dispositions of such a power might be advantageously cherished by a mission which should manifest our willingness to meet his good will.

$2,000 were deposited in the hands of the Attorney-General of the United States to pay expenses incident to the prosecution of Aaron Burr and his accomplices for treason and misdemeanors alleged to have been committed by them.

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