Tate, with his answer.[130] JAMES MADISON. [Footnote 130: Relating to demand of Spain for possession of West

Florida; to unlawful expeditions against Spanish possessions;
to the exclusion from ports of the United States of the flags of revolting provinces of Spain; to the attitude of
the United States toward the Mexican revolution;

to vessels of the United States condemned in ports of Spain; to the free navigation of the Mississippi; to the boundaries of Louisiana, etc.] WASHINGTON, _January 31, 1816_. _To the House of
Representatives of the United States_: I transmit a repor