In delivering to you these sentiments I express not my own feelings only, but those of my fellow-citizens, in relation to the commencement, the progress, and the issue of the French Revolution, and they will cordially join with me in purest wishes to the Supreme Being that the citizens of our sister Republic, our magnanimous allies, may soon enjoy in peace that liberty which they have purchased at so great a price, and all the happiness which liberty can bestow.

I receive, sir, with lively sensibility the symbol of the triumphs and of the enfranchisement of your nation, the colors of France, which you have now presented to the United States.  The transaction will be announced to Congress, and the colors will be deposited with those archives of the United States which are at once the evidences and the memorials of their freedom and independence.  May these be perpetual, and may the friendship of the two Republics be commensurate with their existence.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, January 13, 1796.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1795 from the sums heretofore granted to defray the contingent expenses of the Government.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, February 29, 1796.

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

I send herewith the papers relating to the negotiation of the treaty with Spain, to which I referred in my message of the 26th instant.[17]

Go.  WASHINGTON.

[Footnote 17:  See Vol.  I, p. 192.]

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

I send herewith a copy of the treaty of friendship, limits, and navigation between the United States and His Catholic Majesty, which has been ratified by me with your advice and consent.  A copy of the treaty will be immediately communicated to the House of Representatives, it being necessary to make provision in the present session for carrying into execution the third and twenty-first articles, particularly the former, seeing that execution must commence before the next meeting of Congress.

Estimates of the moneys necessary to be provided for the purposes of this and several other treaties with foreign nations and the Indian tribes will be laid before you by the proper Department.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

MARCH 29, 1796.

UNITED STATES, February 15, 1707.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I lay before you an official statement of the expenditure to the end of the year 1796 from the sums heretofore granted to defray the contingent charges of the Government.

Go.  WASHINGTON.

UNITED STATES, June 22, 1797.

Gentlemen of the Senate: 

Having sent the report and documents which accompany this message to the House of Representatives,[18] in compliance with their desire expressed in their resolution of the 10th of this month, I think it proper to send duplicates to the Senate for their information.