I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your excellency’s obedient servant,

JOHN FORSYTH.

WASHINGTON, April 5, 1838.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, in answer to their resolution of the 21st ultimo.

M. VAN BUREN.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, April 4, 1838.

The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 

The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st ultimo, requesting the President, “if not incompatible with the public interests, to communicate to that House any information possessed by him respecting the capture and destruction of the steamboat Caroline at Schlosser during the night of the 29th December last, and the murder of citizens of the United States on board, and all the particulars thereof not heretofore communicated, and especially to inform the House whether said capture was authorized, commanded, or sanctioned or has been avowed by the British authorities or officers, or any of them, and also what steps have been taken by him to obtain satisfaction from the Government of Great Britain on account of said outrage, and to communicate to the House all correspondence or communications relative thereto which have passed between the Government of the United States and Great Britain, or any of the public authorities of either,” has the honor to lay before the President the accompanying documents, which contain all the information in the possession of this Department relative to the subject of the resolution; and to state, moreover, that instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States in London to make a full representation to Her Britannic Majesty’s Government of the facts connected with this lamentable occurrence, to remonstrate against the unwarrantable course pursued on the occasion by the British troops from Canada, and to express the expectation of this Government that such redress as the nature of the case obviously requires will be promptly given.

Respectfully submitted.

JOHN FORSYTH.

Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Fox.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, January 5, 1838.

HENRY S. FOX, Esq., etc.

SIR:  By the direction of the President of the United States, I have the honor to communicate to you a copy of the evidence furnished to this Department of an extraordinary outrage committed from Her Britannic Majesty’s Province of Upper Canada on the persons and property of citizens of the United States within the jurisdiction of the State of New York.  The destruction of the property and the assassination of citizens of the United States on the soil of New York