Congress are already acquainted with the failure of the loan attempted in Holland for the relief of our unhappy fellow-citizens in Algiers.  This subject, than which none deserves a more affectionate zeal, has constantly commanded my best exertions.  I am happy, therefore, in being able to say that from the last authentic accounts the Dey was disposed to treat for a peace and ransom, and that both would in all probability have been accomplished had we not been disappointed in the means.  Nothing which depends upon the Executive shall be left undone for carrying into immediate effect the supplementary act of Congress.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, March 2, 1795.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

It appears from the information which I have lately received that it may be probably necessary to the more successful conduct of our affairs on the coast of Barbary that one consul should reside in Morocco, another in Algiers, and a third in Tunis or Tripoli.  As no appointment for these offices will be accepted without some emolument annexed, I submit to the consideration of Congress whether it may not be advisable to authorize a stipend to be allowed to two consuls for that coast in addition to the one already existing.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, March 2, 1795.

Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: 

I transmit to you copies of a letter from the governor of the State of Delaware and of an act inclosed “declaring the assent of that State to an amendment therein mentioned to the Constitution of the United States.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, June 8, 1795.[2]

[Footnote 2:  For proclamation convening Senate in extraordinary session see p. 587.]

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

In pursuance of my nomination of John Jay as envoy extraordinary to His Britannic Majesty on the 16th day of April, 1794, and of the advice and consent of the Senate thereto on the 19th, a negotiation was opened in London.  On the 7th of March, 1795, the treaty resulting therefrom was delivered to the Secretary of State.  I now transmit to the Senate that treaty and other documents connected with it.  They will, therefore, in their wisdom decide whether they will advise and consent that the said treaty be made between the United States and His Britannic Majesty.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, June 25, 1795.

Gentlemen of the Senate: