The Season when the Legislatures usually meet to do Business is at Hand. It is highly probable that Congress will find it expedient to call their Attention to certain Objects of general Concern and particularly to some which the present State of our foreign Affairs present. The late Advices I have received from Europe demand the attentive Consideration of Congress, and in my Opinion will give...
I find in the Newspapers of this Day an Act of Congress of 27 th . Ult: respecting the Court of Appeals. As this Act is interesting to Foreigners as well as to Citizens, and particularly to M r . Van Berckel’s Case of the Sloop Chester, I expected to find it among the Acts of Congress entered in the Book daily sent from this Office to receive such as may affect the Business of it. It was not...