Letter from the secretary of state, : accompanying a report and abstract of all the returns of registered American seamen, and of the protests and returns respecting impressed seamen, since the 17th of February, 1797, the date of his last report, which have been transmitted to him, by the collectors of the different ports, agreeably to the directions of the "Act for the relief and protection of American seamen;" and also, copies or abstracts of such communications from the agents employed by virtue of the same act, in foreign ports, as have been received;-- with sundry communications from the minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at London, on the same subject: in pursuance of a resolution of this House, of the 29th of November last. : 1st March, 1798. Referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. : Published by order of the House of Representatives of the United States