Looks forward to a prompt adjustment of the Florida border and some decision concerning navigation of the Mississippi. Dumas is writing concerning Dutch affairs. There is universal agreement that the best way to treat the Barbary pirates is to organize an alliance against them. If Congress has no orders for him, he will perhaps accept the invitation of the Empress of Russia to be presented to her n ext spring in the Crimea.
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United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829