JAMES MADISON.

FEBRUARY 19, 1812.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I lay before the House of Representatives a report[75] of the Secretary of War, in pursuance of their resolution of the 17th of December, 1811.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 75:  Transmitting rules and regulations for training and disciplining the regular troops and militia of the United States.]

MARCH 12, 1812.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[76] of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 10th instant.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 76:  Stating that his Department is not in possession of any names of persons in the United States who entered into or countenanced the project for the fomentation of sectional divisions in the United States and the dissolution of the Union for the execution of which John Henry was in the year 1809 employed by Sir James Craig, then Governor-General of the British Provinces in North America.]

MARCH 13, 1812.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I lay before Congress a letter[77] from the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain to the Secretary of State.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 77:  Disclaiming any knowledge of the employment of a secret agent by Great Britain to foment disaffection to the constituted authorities of the United States, etc. (See message of March 9, 1812, Vol.  I, p. 498.)]

APRIL 6, 1812.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit to the House of Representatives a report of the superintendent of the city,[78] in compliance with their resolution of the 24th of March, to which I add a letter from B.H.  Latrobe, connected with that subject.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 78:  Washington.]

APRIL 23, 1812.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate a report[79] of the Secretary of State, complying with their resolution of the 4th of March last.

JAMES MADISON.

[Footnote 79:  Relating to captures by belligerent European Governments of American vessels bound to or from the Baltic or within that sea.]

JULY 4, 1812.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: 

I transmit, for the information of Congress, copies of a correspondence of the minister plenipotentiary of Great Britain with the Secretary of State.[80]