Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16)

by United States. Congress

Thursday, November 15.

Two other members, to wit: from Massachusetts, Samuel Thatcher; and from Pennsylvania, Andrew Gregg, appeared, and took their seats in the House.

A Message was received from the President of the United States, as follows:

To the House of Representatives of the United States:

Agreeably to your resolution of the ninth instant, I now lay before you a statement of the circumstances attending the destruction of the frigate Philadelphia, with the names of the officers and the number of men employed on the occasion; to which I have to add, that Lieutenant Decatur was, thereupon, advanced to be a Captain in the Navy of the United States.

TH. JEFFERSON.

Nov. 15, 1804.

The said Message and the papers referred to therein, were read, and ordered to lie on the table.