On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted.  A hope existed at one moment of an arrangement which might have been submitted to, but it soon passed away, and the practice, though relaxed at times in the distant seas, has been constantly pursued in those in our neighborhood.  The grounds on which the reclamations on this subject have been urged will appear in an extract from instructions to our minister at London now communicated.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 17, 1806

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

The inclosed letter from the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of London contains interesting information on the subjects of my other message of this date.  It is sent separately and confidentially because its publication may discourage frank communications between our ministers generally and the Governments with which they reside, and especially between the same ministers.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 24, 1806.

To the Senate of the United States: 

A convention has been entered into between the United States and the Cherokee Nation for the extinguishment of the rights of the latter, and of some unsettled claims in the country north of the river Tennessee, therein described.  This convention is now laid before the Senate for their advice and consent as to its ratification.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 27, 1806.

To the Senate of the United States: 

According to the desire of the Senate expressed in their resolution of the 10th instant, I now communicate to them a report of the Secretary of State, with its documents, stating certain new principles attempted to be introduced on the subject of neutral rights, injurious to the rights and interests of the United States.  These, with my message to both Houses of the 17th instant and the documents accompanying it, fulfill the desires of the Senate as far as it can be done by any information in my possession which is authentic and not publicly known.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

JANUARY 29, 1806.

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

Having received from sundry merchants at Baltimore a memorial on the same subject with those I communicated to Congress with my message of the 17th instant, I now communicate this also as a proper sequel to the former, and as making a part of the mass of evidence of the violations of our rights on the ocean.

TH.  JEFFERSON.

FEBRUARY 3, 1806.

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