I transmit herewith to Congress a report from the Secretary of State, showing the circumstances under which refuge was given on board the United States ship _St. Louis_, Captain Sloat, to the vice-president of the Republic of Peru and to General Miller, and the expense thereby incurred by Captain Sloat, for the payment of which there is no fund applicable to the case. I recommend to Congress that provision be made for this and similar cases that may occur in future. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _April 4, 1832_. _To the Congress of the United States_: I submit herewith to the consideration of Congress a report from the Secretary of State, showing the necessity of providing additional accommodations for the Patent Office, and proposing the purchase of a suitable building, which has been offered to the Government for the purpose. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _April 4, 1832_. _To the Senate_: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, made in compliance with the resolution of the Senate which requests the President to communicate to the Senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, that portion of the correspondence between Mr. McLane, while minister at London, and the Secretary of State, and also between our said minister and the British Government, respecting the colonial trade, which may not have been communicated with his message to Congress of the 3d January, 1831. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _April 6, 1832_. _To the Senate_: I nominate William P. Zantzinger, of Pennsylvania, to be a purser in the Navy of the United States. In submitting the above nomination it is deemed proper to give some detail of the peculiar circumstances of the case. Mr. Zantzinger was formerly a purser, and after a trial by a court-martial in January, 1830, was dismissed from the naval service. The record is inclosed, marked A. In July, 1830, verbally, afterwards in writing early in 1831, he applied for restoration to his former situation and date on the assumed ground that the proceedings in his trial were illegal and void, and he fortified himself by the many numerous certificates and opinions herewith forwarded, marked B. These have been carefully examined, and though failing to convince me of the correctness of his position in respect to the nullity of those proceedings, I am satisfied that under all the circumstances of the case a mitigation of his sentence can be justified on both public and personal grounds. With the loss of his former date and of his pay since his dismission, I have therefore submitted his nomination to take effect like an original entry into the service, only from its confirmation by the Senate. There is now one vacancy in the corps of pursers. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, _April 9, 1832_. _To the Senate_: