Thomas Jefferson: “I shall think it my duty to lay before you the proceedings and the evidence publicly exhibited on the arraignment of the…”

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

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.

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;

According to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, I now transmit them the information therein requested, respecting the execution of the act of Congress of February 21, 1806, appropriating $2,000,000 for defraying any…