According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 23d. instant, I now transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with the letters it refers to, shewing the proceedings which have taken place under the resolution of Congress of the 16th. of April 1800. the term prescribed for the execution of the resolution having elapsed before the person appointed had set1 out on the service, I did not deem it justifiable to commence a course of expenditure after the expiration of the resolution authorising it. the correspondence which has taken place, having regard to dates, will place this subject properly under the view of the House of Representatives.