Tuesday, January 21.
The following Message was received from the President of the United States:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
Having already laid before you a letter of the 16th of August, 1793, from the Secretary of State to our Minister at Paris, stating the conduct and urging the recall, of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France, I now communicate to you, that his conduct has been unequivocally disapproved; and that the strongest assurances have been given, that his recall should be expedited without delay.
G. WASHINGTON.
United States, January 20, 1794.
The Message was read, and ordered to lie on file.
The memorial of the people called Quakers, from the yearly meeting held at Rhode Island for New England, in the year 1793, was presented and read, praying Congress to exercise the authority vested in them by the constitution for the suppression of the slave trade.
Ordered, That Messrs. Bradley, Livermore, and Brown, be a committee to take into consideration the laws passed in the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, from July to December, 1792, inclusive, and report thereon to the Senate.