Washington, _January 6, 1833_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I beg leave to call the attention of Congress to the accompanying report
from the Secretary of State, recommending an appropriation to refund the
amount of duties that have been collected in the ports of the United
States on the tonnage of foreign vessels belonging to nations that have
abolished in their ports discriminating duties on the vessels of the
United States.
I also transmit herewith another report from the Secretary of State,
stating the losses to which certain Swedish subjects allege they were
exposed by the taking out of one of the ports of St. Bartholomew, in the
year 1828, a vessel under the flag of the Republic of Buenos Ayres, by
the commander of the United States ship _Erie_, and for the payment of
which it is thought provision ought to be made by Congress.