Thomas Jefferson: “These springs are said to possess the advantage of being accompanied with a bed of coal.”

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 lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.

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 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.