Thomas Jefferson: “The balance of remains in the Treasury.”

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.

The balance of $17,010 remains in the Treasury unexpended.

When the documents concerning the relations between the United States and Great Britain were laid before Congress at the commencement of the session, the answer of Mr. Pinkney to the letter of Mr. Canning had not been received.

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;