y until the
arrival of a minister, who, it is officially announced, will be sent to
this country with powers to treat on the subject.

This fact, it is believed, will justify the opinion I have formed that
it will not be consistent with the public interest to communicate the
correspondence and instructions requested by the House so long as the
negotiation shall be pending.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _January 2, 1833_.
_The Speaker of the House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State on the subject
of the French ship _Pactole_, upon the cargo of which a discriminating
duty seems to have been levied in 1827 by the collector at Pensacola, in
contravention, as is alleged, with the convention of 1822 with France.

ANDREW JACKSON.

Washington, _January 6, 1833_.
_To the House of Representatives_:

I beg leave to call the attention of Congress to the accompanying report
from the Secretary of State, recommending an appropriation to refund the
amount of duties that have been collected in the ports of the United
States on the tonnage of foreign vessels belonging to nations that have
abolished in their ports discriminating duties on the vessels of the
United States.

I also transmit herewith another report from the Secretary of State,
stating the losses to which certain Swedish subjects allege they were
exposed by the taking out of one of the ports of St. Bartholomew, in the
year 1828, a vessel under the flag of the Republic of Buenos Ayres, by
the commander of the United States ship _Erie_, and for the payment of
which it is thought provision ought to be made by Congress.

ANDREW JACKSON.

WASHINGTON, _January 7, 1833_.
_The Speaker of the House of Representatives_:

I transmit to the House of Representatives the report of the Secretary
of State upon the subject of the duties on the cargo of the French ship
_Pactole_, prepared in obedience to the resolution of that House of the
20th of December, 1832, which was referred to him.

ANDREW JACKSON.

_To the Senate_:

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 28th ultimo,
requesting the President of the United States to communicate to the
Senate a copy of the treaty concluded at Franklin, in the State of
Tennessee, between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians,
on the ---- day of August, 1830, together with a copy of the
instructions, if any, to the commissioner who negotiated the treaty