Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the secretary of state, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of the twenty-fifth of last month, requesting to be furnished with such information as may be possessed by the executive, touching the execution of so much of the first article of the late treaty of peace and amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States, as relates to the restitution or slaves, and which has not heretofore been communicated. : December 3d, 1818. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States