Letter from the secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information called for, by the resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 4th instant, in relation to ships engaged in the slave trade, which have been seized and condemned, and the disposition which has been made of the Negroes, by the several state governments, under whose jurisdiction they have fallen

January 21, 1819. Read, and referred to the committee of the whole House, to which is committed the bill supplementary to the acts prohibiting the importation of slaves