Thomas Jefferson: “I can not, then, but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system.”

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

I transmit to Congress a letter recently received from our minister at the Court of St. James, covering one to him from the British secretary of state, with his reply.

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.