Thomas Jefferson: “If an increase of force be now approved, I submit to their consideration the outlines of a plan proposed in the inclosed…”

$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.

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

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…

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.