Thomas Jefferson: “These designations, not at all suiting us, were declined.”

$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.

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.

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

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.