Thomas Jefferson: “I now lay before them copies of such documents as are in possession of the Executive relative to the arrest and…”

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.

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.

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 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;