1. Samuel A. Otis sent Jefferson a copy of a resolution passed by the Senate on 17 Apr. 1806 (DNA: RG 59, ML; 1 p.; docketed by Wagner, with his note: “Calling for papers respecting Tunis”): “That the president of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, if in his opinion the same can be done with propriety, a particular statement of the cause of difference between the bey of Tunis, and the government of the United States, and the communications which have taken place relative thereto.”

2. On 18 Apr. 1806 Jefferson sent the following message to the Senate: “In compliance with the request of the Senate, of yesterday’s date, I now communicate the entire correspondence between the Ambassador of Tunis and the Secretary of State. From which the Senate will see, that the first application by the Ambassador for restitution of the vessels taken in violation of blockade, having been yielded to, the only remaining cause of difference brought forward by him, is the requisition of a present of naval stores, to secure a peace for three years; after which, the inference is obvious, that a renewal of the presents is to be expected, to renew the prolongation of peace for another term. But this demand has been pressed in verbal conferences, much more explicitly and pertinaciously than appears in the written correspondence. To save the delay of copying, some originals are enclosed, with a request that they be returned” (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, D.C., 1828). description ends , 2:34). For the enclosures, see Melimeni to JM, 11 Feb., 11 and 18 Mar., and JM to Melimeni, 5 Feb., 4, 17, and 31 Mar. 1806.