I also transmit to you copies of a letter from the Secretary of State to the minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty, and of the answer thereto, upon the subject of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, together with the copy of a letter from Messrs. Carmichael and Short, relative to our affairs with Spain, which letter is connected with a former confidential message, GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _February 26, 1794_. _Gentlemen of the Senate_: I have caused the correspondence which is the subject of your resolution of the 24th day of January last to be laid before me. After an examination of it I directed copies and translations to be made, except in those particulars which, in my judgment, for public considerations, ought not to be communicated. These copies and translations are now transmitted to the Senate; but the nature of them manifests the propriety of their being received as confidential. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _March 3, 1794_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_: I transmit to you an extract from a letter of Mr. Short, relative to our affairs with Spain, and copies of two letters from our minister at Lisbon, with their inclosures, containing intelligence from Algiers. The whole of these communications are made in confidence, except the passage in Mr. Short's letter which respects the Spanish convoy. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _March 5, 1794_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_: The Secretary of State having reported to me upon the several complaints which have been lodged in his office against the vexations and spoliations on our commerce since the commencement of the European war, I transmit to you a copy of his statement, together with the documents upon which it is founded. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _March 18, 1794_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_: The minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic having requested an advance of money, I transmit to Congress certain documents relative to that subject. GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, _March 28, 1794_. _Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives_; In the execution of the resolution of Congress bearing date the 26th of March, 1794, and imposing an embargo, I have requested the governors of the several States to call forth the force of their militia, if it should be necessary, for the detention of vessels. This power is conceived to be incidental to an embargo.