s of a protracted session at the present
season of the year, I forbear to call the attention of the Legislature
to any matters not particularly urgent. It remains, therefore, only to
assure you of the fidelity and alacrity with which I shall cooperate
for the welfare and happiness of our country, and to pray that it may
experience a continuance of the divine blessings by which it has been
so signally favored.

JAMES MADISON.

MAY 23, 1809.

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

MAY 26, 1809.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I now lay before Congress the report of the Secretary of War, shewing
the progress made in carrying into effect the act of April, 1808, for
raising an additional military force, and the disposition of the troops.

JAMES MADISON.

JUNE 4, 1809.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with the request of the legislature of Pennsylvania, I
transmit to Congress a copy of certain of its proceedings, communicated
for the purpose by the governor of that State.

JAMES MADISON.

JUNE 15, 1809.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant,
I transmit extracts from letters from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of
State, accompanied by letters and communications to him from the British
secretary of state for the foreign department, all of which have been
received here since the last session of Congress.

To these documents are added a communication just made by Mr. Erskine
to the Secretary of State, and his answer.

JAMES MADISON.

JUNE 20, 1809.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant, I
transmit such information as has been received respecting exiles from
Cuba arrived or expected within the United States; also a letter from
General Turreau connected with that subject.

JAMES MADISON.

JUNE 26, 1809.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

The considerations which led to the nomination of a minister
plenipotentiary to Russia being strengthened by evidence since received
of the earnest desire of the Emperor to establish a diplomatic
intercourse between the two countries, and of a disposition in his
councils favorable to the extension of a commerce mutually advantageous,
as will be seen by the extracts from letters from General Armstrong and
Consul Harris herewith confidentially communicated, I nominate John
Quincy Adams, of Ma