I also transmit to you copies of a letter from the Secretary of State to the minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, and of the answer thereto, upon the subject of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, together with the copy of a letter from Messrs. Carmichael and Short, relative to our affairs with Spain, which letter is connected with a former confidential message,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, February 26, 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate:
I have caused the correspondence which is the subject of your resolution of the 24th day of January last to be laid before me. After an examination of it I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerations, ought not to be communicated.
These copies and translations are now transmitted to the Senate; but the nature of them manifests the propriety of their being received as confidential.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, March 3, 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
I transmit to you an extract from a letter of Mr. Short, relative to our affairs with Spain, and copies of two letters from our minister at Lisbon, with their inclosures, containing intelligence from Algiers. The whole of these communications are made in confidence, except the passage in Mr. Short's letter which respects the Spanish convoy.