DATES. Extract of a Letter from Fulwar Skipwith, Esq. Commercial Agent of the United States, to the Secretary of "FOR the information of our fellow citizens concerned in the causes of captured vessels in this country, Cargo condemned, ship released Thermidor 6 Released-compromise confirm ed as far as relative to the damages Diable à quatre Condemned Grand Buonaparte Released-no damages Prairial 9 8 Messidor 9 8 8 do. 6 8 do. Names. Captains. The Pegou J. Green Union Ab. Lunt Tartare Statira J. Seaward Hazard Republican J. Simpson Spartiate Peggy G. Davidson Grand Decidé The above list of the judgments rendered by the council of prizes, on the American captured vessels is true and conformable to the records of said council. A true copy. CULMELIS, Secretary Gl. F. SKIPWITH. Condemned Released-no damages Brumaire do. do. CAPTURED VESSELS. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. APRIL 20, 1802. I TRANSMIT you report from the Secretary of State, with the information desired by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 8th of January, relative to certain spoliations and other proceedings therein referred to. TH: JEFFERSON. Department of State, April 18, 1802. THE Secretary of State respectfully reports to the President the information requested by the resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 8th of January last, relative to spoliations, committed on the commerce of the United States, under Spanish authority; and also, relative to the imprisonment of the American consul at Saint Jago de Cuba. This report has been delayed longer than was wished; but the delay has been made unavoidable by the sickness and absence of the chief clerk in this department, who had partially gone through the necessary researches, and could most readily have completed them. JAMES MADISON. Philadelphia, October 10, 1801. SIR,-The situation in which I am placed, as president of an incorporated insurance company, affords me a pretence for addressing the Secretary of State on a subject in which I conceive the honour and interest of the United States are in a considerable degree involved. But as you will probably receive more formal applications on the same subject from other quarters, I shall be the less formal in my communication, considering it merely as an auxiliary which may or may not, be brought into action, |