whom had subscribed to it. That the proposal to make this of- 

 fer had been made to the mission not by me, but by a citizen of 

 the Western Country : that it was warranted, and as I believed, ab- 

 solutely required by the instructions to the mission at the time 

 when the proposal was made to the British commissioners, and that 

 if I had felt and shown great solicitude at Ghent for the fisheries, 

 I did not expect it was to be imputed to me as an offence, ei- 

 ther in my character of a servant of the Union, or in that of a na- 

 tive citizen of Massachusetts. He said the proposal was at all 

 events to be so represented, that it was charged exclusively upoQ 

 me, and that I should hear more about it ere long. 



On the 16th of January last, Mr. Floyd, a member of the House 

 of Representatives of the United States, submitted to the House a 

 resolution in the following words : 



*' Resolvedj That the President of the United States be requested to cause to 

 be laid before this House, all the correspondence which led to the treaty of 

 Ghent, which has not yet been made public, and which, in his opinion, it may 

 not be improper to disclose." 



The said resolution was read, and ordered to lie on the table 

 one day. 



The proceedings of the House upon it the next day, are thus re- 

 ported in the National Intelligencer of the 18th of January. 



Thursday, January l7th, 1822. 

 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



On motion of Mr. Floyd, the House proceeded to the considera- 

 tion of the resolution offered by him yesterday, requesting of the 

 President of the United States " all the correspondence which led 

 to the treaty of Ghent, which has not yet been made pubhc, and 

 which, in his opinion^ it may not be improper to disclose.'^ 



Mr. F/oT/J remarked that, as peace was now restored, there was 

 no reason why the whole of the correspondence which led to the 

 treaty of peace, should not be made public. He therefore modi- 

 lied his motion by striking out the excepting clause, in italic, and 

 inserting after the word "Ghent," the words, ''together with the 

 protocol.'''' He would also observe, that the bill which he had this 

 day reported to the House, contemplated a very considerable 

 change in our intercourse with the Indian tribes in the West, and 

 it appeared, by the report of the Secretary of War, made yester- 

 day, that a great influence was exercised over those tribes by our 

 European neighbours in that quarter. The correspondence be- 

 tween the comotiissioners at Ghent embraced this subject, among 

 others, and he thought it was desirable that the House should be 

 in possession of the whole of it. 



