Insinuations having been repeatedly made, in the name of the Court of Sweden, of an inclination to renew the connection, between the United States, and that power, I sent in the recess of the Senate to our Minister at Berlin, a full power, to negotiate that business with such alterations, as might be agreeable to both parties; but as that Commission, if not renewed with the Advice and consent of the Senate will expire with the present session of Congress, I now nominate John Quincy Adams to be a commissioner with full powers to negotiate a Treaty of Amity & Commerce, with his Majesty the King of Sweden