Thomas Jefferson: “For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well organized and armed militia is their best security.”

$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.

$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.

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…