May it please your excellency, To receive my hearty and sincere congratulations on your reelection to the presidentship of the United States of America - Landais, Peter (s.n, 1814)
Includes his two last petitions to Congress and extracts from other documents. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 28905. - Signed and dated: P. Landais, New-York, 5th June, 1813. A second letter is appended dated New-York, October 8, 1814. - Title from first words of text. - Urges his claim "to be paid in full by the government of the United States the remainder of the amount, &c. of my share of the three English prizes which were taken by ... the Alliance, commanded by myself, and sent to Bergen ... 1779" -- p. 1