DECEMBER 1, 1814.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
I transmit, for the information of Congress, the communications last received from the ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States at Ghent, explaining the course and actual state of their negotiations with the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain.
JAMES MADISON.
FEBRUARY 15, 1815.
To the Senate of the United States:
I have received from the American commissioners a treaty of peace and amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, signed by those commissioners and by the commissioners of His Britannic Majesty at Ghent on the 24th of December, 1814. The termination of hostilities depends upon the time of the ratification of the treaty by both parties. I lose no time, therefore, in submitting the treaty to the Senate for their advice and approbation.
I transmit also a letter from the American commissioners, which accompanied the treaty.
JAMES MADISON.
WASHINGTON, February 18, 1815.