The families of those brave and patriotic citizens who have fallen in this severe conflict will doubtless engage the favorable attention of Congress.

While it is deeply lamented that so many valuable lives have been lost in the action which took place on the 7th ultimo, Congress will see with satisfaction the dauntless spirit and fortitude victoriously displayed by every description of…

by which it will be seen that that subject of difference between the two countries is terminated by an offer of reparation, which has been acceded to.

I communicate to Congress copies of a correspondence between the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain and the Secretary of State relative to the aggression committed by a British ship of war on the United…

The unfriendly spirit of those disclosures indemnity and redress for other wrongs have continued to be withheld.

To secure greater respect to our mercantile flag.

I can not close this communication without expressing my deep sense of the crisis in which you are assembled.

Our other foreign relations remain without unfavorable changes.

The practice of smuggling, which is odious everywhere, and particularly criminal in free governments.

We should not be left in unnecessary dependence on external supplies.

It was hoped that the successive confirmations of the extinction of the French decrees would have induced the Government of Great Britain to repeal its orders in council.

A prohibition is equally called for against the acceptance by our citizens of special licenses to be used in a trade with the United States.

An enlarged philanthropy and an enlightened forecast concur in imposing on the national councils an obligation to take a deep interest in their destinies.

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.

I have thought that the friendly dispositions of such a power might be advantageously cherished by a mission which should manifest our willingness to meet his good will.

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;

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 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.