According to the request of the House of Representatives expressed in
their resolution of the 11th instant, I now lay before them a printed
copy of a paper purporting to be a circular letter from Mr. Jackson to
the British consuls in the United States, as received in a Gazette at
the Department of State; and also a printed paper received in a letter
from our minister in London, purporting to be a copy of a dispatch from
Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d of January last.

JAMES MADISON.



DECEMBER 16, 1809.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

Agreeably to the request in the resolution of the 15th instant, I
transmit a copy of the correspondence with the governor of Pennsylvania
in the case of Gideon Olmstead,

JAMES MADISON.



DECEMBER 16, 1809.

_To the House of Representatives of the United States_:

Agreeably to the request expressed in the resolution of the 13th
instant, I lay before the House extracts from the correspondence of the