WASHINGTON, _January 16, 1833_.
_To the Senate_:
In conformity with a resolution of the Senate of the 31st December last,
I herewith transmit copies of the instructions under which the late
treaty of indemnity with Naples was negotiated, and of all the
correspondence relative thereto.
It will appear evident from a perusal of some of those documents that
they are written by the agents of the United States to their own
Government with a freedom, as far as relates to the officers of that of
Naples, which was never intended for the public eye, and as they might,
if printed, accidentally find their way abroad and thereby embarrass our
ministers in their future operations in foreign countries, I
respectfully recommend that in the printing, if deemed necessary, such a
discrimination be made as to avoid that inconvenience, preferring this
course to withholding from the Senate any part of the correspondence.