I was disinclined to its ratification, and therefore did not at the last session of Congress lay it before the Senate for their advice.

I therefore now transmit the treaty for the consideration of the Senate, and I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.

I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1807.

I communicate to Congress the inclosed letters from Governor Hull, respecting the Indians in the vicinity of Detroit residing within our lines.

They contain information of the state of things in that quarter which will properly enter into their view in estimating the means to be provided for the defense of our country generally.

Their wisdom will also see the necessity of making every preparation for whatever events may grow out of the present crisis.

The communications now made, shewing the great and increasing dangers with which our vessels, our seamen, and merchandise are threatened on the high seas and elsewhere from the belligerent powers of Europe.

I deem it my duty to recommend the subject to the consideration of Congress.

While this information will have its proper effect on their deliberations and proceedings respecting the relations between the two countries, they will be sensible that, the negotiation being still depending, it is proper for me to request…

Congress will learn from these papers the present state of the discussion on that transaction, and that it is to be transferred to this place by the mission of a special minister.

They contain the whole of what has passed between the two Governments on the subject of the outrage committed by the British ship Leopard on the frigate Chesapeake.

I hasten to lay them before both Houses of Congress.

I must inform them that when the prosecutions against Aaron Burr and his associates were instituted I delivered to the Attorney-General all the evidence on the subject, formal and informal, which I had received, to be used by those…

I referred it to the Attorney-General, with a request that he would enable me to comply with it by putting into my hands such of the papers as might give information relative to the conduct of John Smith, a Senator from the State of Ohio…

I now transmit it for their use.

Agreeably to the assurance given in my message at the opening of the present session of Congress, I now lay before you a copy of the proceedings and of the evidence exhibited on the arraignment of Aaron Burr and others before the circuit…

In order to correct the error, I have canceled the temporary commissions, and now revoke the nomination which I made of the said Jonathan Palmer to the Senate.

According to the request expressed in your resolution of the 18th instant, I now transmit a copy of my proclamation interdicting our harbors and waters to British armed vessels and forbidding intercourse with them.