Louis Philippe, Comte de Ségur (segur), served as the French minister to Russia from 1784 to 1789 and as a special envoy to Prussia from 1791 to 1792 (Tulard, Dictionnaire Napoléon description begins Jean Tulard, Dictionnaire Napoléon, Paris, 1987 description ends , 1556; Vol. 22:470; Vol. 23:70-1, 107). An English translation of his three-volume history of contemporary Europe, entitled History of the Principal Events of the Reign of Frederic William II. King of Prussia, was published in London in 1801 (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 267).

bill before congress: on 17 Mch., Senator Robert Wright of Maryland introduced a bill for the temporary removal of the seat of government to the city of Baltimore. Read a second time on 19 Mch., the bill provoked a spirited debate in the Senate. Wright explained that he did not intend that the bill should pass, but rather that it should act as “a spur to the inhabitants of Washington to effect a more complete accommodation of Congress.” Other senators condemned the proposal as unconstitutional and liable to undermine confidence in the national government. A motion to postpone further consideration of the bill until the first Monday in May was defeated by a vote of 24 to 3, and an ensuing motion to pass it to a third reading lost by a vote of 19 to 9 (JS description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820-21, 5 vols. description ends , 3:380, 382-3; Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834-56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , 13:282-8; National Intelligencer, 21 Mch. 1804; Everett Somerville Brown, ed., William Plumer’s Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803-1807 [London, 1923], 178, 180). TJ’s papers contain a transcript from the Senate journals of the 19 Mch. votes on the bill (DLC: TJ Papers, 139:24048; in an unidentified hand, attested and signed by Samuel A. Otis).