The proper decision of Captain Bainbridge that a vessel which had committed an open hostility was of right to be detained for inquiry and consideration.

The temperate and correct course pursued by our consul, Mr. Simpson.

And to these I add what was indeed transacted in another quarter--the gallant enterprise of Captain Rodgers in destroying on the coast of Tripoli a corvette of that power of 22 guns.

The efficacious cooperation of Captains Rodgers and Campbell, of the returning squadron.

You will be sensible, from the face of these papers, as well as of those to which they are a sequel, that they are not and could not be official, but are furnished by different individuals as the result of the best inquiries they had been…

It will inform them of the obligations which the United States thereby contract, and particularly that of taking the tribe under their future protection, and that the ceded country is submitted to their immediate possession and disposal.

From the nature of the transaction some documents relative to it might have been expected from the War Office.

A translation of the most important laws in force in that province, now in press, shall be the subject of a supplementary communication.

I now lay before them copies of such documents as are in possession of the Executive relative to the arrest and confinement of Zachariah Cox.

I now communicate a digest of the information I have received relative to Louisiana, which may be useful to the Legislature in providing for the government of the country.

In the meanwhile it is for Congress to consider the provisional authorities which may be necessary to restrain the depredations of this power should they be continued.

I now lay before you the treaty mentioned in my general message at the opening of the session as having been concluded with the Kaskaskia Indians for the transfer of their country to us under certain reservations and conditions.

Progress having been made in the demarcation of Indian boundaries, I am now able to communicate to you.

This conduct on the part of that power is without cause and without explanation.

I lay before you the convention signed on the 12th day of May last between the United States and Great Britain for settling their boundaries in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the United States.

While we regret the miseries in which we see others involved, let us bow with gratitude.

Whereas great and weighty matters claiming the consideration of the Congress of the United States form an extraordinary occasion for convening them, I do by these presents appoint Monday, the 17th day of October next, for their meeting at…

hereby requiring their respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communications as may then be made to them and to consult and determine on such measures as in their wisdom may…