UNITED STATES, _March_ 19, 1798.
The Message was read and referred to the committee appointed on the 29th
November last, who have under consideration that part of the Speech of
the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, at the commencement of the session,
which relates to the protection of commerce, to consider and report
thereon to the Senate.
TUESDAY, April 3.
The following Message was received from the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES:
_Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of
Representatives_:
In compliance with the request of the House of
Representatives, expressed in their resolution of the
second of this month, I transmit to both Houses those
instructions to, and despatches from, the Envoys
Extraordinary of the United States to the French Republic,
which were mentioned in my Message of the nineteenth of
March last, omitting only some names, and a few expressions
descriptive of the persons.
I request that they may be considered in confidence, until
the members of Congress are fully possessed of their
contents and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on
the consequences of their publication; after which time I
submit them to your wisdom.