have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and, should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety.

" I repair, then, fellow citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this, the greatest of all, I have learned to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station, with the reputation and the favour which bring him into it. Without pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in your first and greatest revolutionary character, whose preeminent services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love, and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment: when right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own error, which will never be intentional; and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts. The approbation implied by your suffrage is a great consolation to me for the past, and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance; to conciliate that of others, by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all.

Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choices it is in your power to make; and may that infinite Power, which rules the destinies of the Universe, lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favourable issue for your peace and prosperity."

INDEX.

TO

PORCUPINE'S WORKS,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

N.B. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and the Figures to

the Page.

A

A. B.'s letter to Governor Shelby, ii. 428.

ix. 7.

Χ.211.

letter to Mr. Brown, news-printer, respecting a surprise,

letter to Friend Peter, on M'Kean's turning Quaker,

Abercrombie's, Rev. Mr. letter to the O'Careys, v. 349.
Ability of the republican judiciary in America, x. 429.
Abominable republican fraternity in the case of Captain Worth,
V.235.

A. C.'s letter to Porcupine on the patriotism of his paper, viii. 27.
Academy, female, in Philadelphia, xi. 242.

Accommodation. Mr. Lee retracts his charge against Judge Livermore, xi. 33.

Account of the insurrection in the western counties of Pennsylvania, in 1794, 1.221.

of the rejoicings for peace at Philadelphia, iii. 437Act of the United States respecting French royalists, ix. 1. Adams, Mr.chofen Vice-prefident of the United States, 1788, i. 91.

-, Mr. Vice-president of the United States, &c. iii. 29.
's, Mr. John, election to the office of President, iv. 344.
-, President, his first speech to the two Houses of Repre-

sentatives, iv. 344.

Mr. John, took his oath of office, and delivered his first speech as President, v. 16.

vi. 65.

,

President, ratifies the treaty of America with Tripoli,

-, President, his speech on dispatches received from General Pinckney, vi. 105.

-, Samuel, his proclamation to the people of Boston, ii.

242.

-, President, his answer to the address of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vii. 117.

--, Samuel, republican honesty, vii. 169.

Adams,

Adams, President, his speech to the House of Representatives
on opening of the sessions 1798, x. 108.

-, President, his message to the House on a suspension of
the arret of the French Republic, x. 143.

, President, nominates Wm. Vans Murray Minifter
Plenipotentiary to the French Republic, x. 45.

, President, his nomination of Oliver Elfworth, Esq.
&c. to be Ministers Plenipotentiaries to the French Republic, x.
153.

-, Mr. Samuel, Prefident of the Senate of Massachusetts,
acquainted with the intrigues of the French Minifter respecting
the fisheries, x. 238.

,

President, his his letter to the House of Representatives on
General Washington's death, xii. 21.

, President, his speech in Congress, December, 1799,
xii. 29.

--, Mr. his answer to Tench Coxe's letter respecting
Mr. Thomas Pinckney's going Ambaffador to the Court of
London, xii. 142.

-, Mr. his recantation respecting a letter on Mr. Pinck-
ney's appointment to be Ambassador at the Court of London,
xii. 147.

his public conduct, xii. 150.

-, Mr. his letters to the Houses of Congress, and to the
army, on the death of General Washington, xii. 170.

--, President, his pardon of Fries, and other capital of-
fanders, xii. 171.
Additional facts, iii. 225.
Address, introductory, to the Gazetteers of Philadelphia, i. 147.
of the Republican Natives of Great Britain and Ireland,

refident in New-York, to Dr. Priestley, i. 132.

of the Constitutional Society of Sheffield to Meffrs.
Muir, Palmer, Skirving, and Margarot, i. 125.

to Dr. Prieftley, of the Philofophical Society at Phila-
delphia, i. 137.

to the Prefident agreed to, with the names of the noes
and ayes. Address itself to the Prefident, iii. 27.

-, Prefident of the Senate's, on Mr. Adams's election to be
Prefident, iv. 345.

to the public, by Porcupine. Gazette Selections, v. 3.
to the French and American patriots, v. 316.

- of the Academy of Arts and Sciences to Mr. Adams, vii.

115.

to the people of England, by Mr. Cobbett, vii. 315.
Adet's (French Minister) letter to the President on presenting

the French flag, iii. 69.

- and the Almanack-makers, v. 360.

- decamps, v. 366.

-- and Talleyrand, vii. 98.

Advantage

لي

Advantage to be derived in America from the French revolution,

iii. 219.

Advertisement extraordinary, v. 426.

extraordinary, John Bolton and his wife, vi. 49. proving that the United States are the most free and enlightened people, signed, "But God has promised to protect the Poor," vii. 20.

to the American Rush-light, xi. 211.

Affair of the Vengeance, an armed French galliot, iv. 189. -- of the Catlius, a French corvette, iv. 193. Africa, the release of all the French confined in the prefidencies there, demanded of Spain by Perignon, vii. 49. African school, United Irishmen ceasing to assemble there, viii. 221. Age of Reason, an attempt in it to justify the feizure of the Church lands, refuted, iii. 183.

written while the author of it was in a dungeon

at Paris, iii. 392.

Agens, Bishop of, declaration when the oath, &c. was tendered him, iii. 197.

Aliens, law respecting them in America, xi. 356. Alleged offences against the Federal Government, by the Republic, examined, iv. 212.

Allegiance, why due to the state where a person is born, iv. 234. and expatriation. Bill for preventing citizens from

entering into foreign service, vi. 197. ---, oaths of, viii. 13.

Army of England, viii. 18.

Allen's, Mr. spirited remark in the House of Representatives, vi. 165.

一,

Mr. moved a resolution against Mr. Ifaac Clark, a member of the House of Representatives, x. 4.

Alliance, triple, early formed for throwing America into the scale of France, v. 292.

Altorf, exactions of the French generals there, viii. 265.

-, town and convent, for five days abandoned to extortion, &c. viii. 268.

--, damages sustained by it through French extortion, viii. 273. Almanack-makers, Adet's ridiculous complaint against them, iv. 342.

Ambassadors, French, bore the criminal orders of stopping the career of American profperity, x. 263.

Amendment, restraining the President from employing frigates as convoys, carried, vi. 217.

proposed to the answer, as first reported, of the Re

presentatives to the President's speech, vi. 132. America and Great Britain, dispute between, i. 343.

and Great Britain might bid defiance to the world, iv. 315. --, a friend to, for Porcupine's Gazette; serious thoughts on the state of America, ix. 182.

America, United States of, described, xi. 355.

--, United States of, not provinces but sovereignties, xi. 355-
An American's account of Mr. Pinckney's demeanour to the rulers
of France, vi. 35.

American independence the greatest evil that ever befell England,
i. 47.

-

--- state paper, iv. 149.

--- Minister remonstrates against the decree of the 9th of
May, 1796, iv. 374.

tameness, v. 311.

vanity in the excluding of the English from the Medi-

terranean ports, v. 256.

political parties, v. 289.

-- speculators in the funds, at an early period of the revolu-

tion, went to Paris, v. 291.

magnanimity, v. 281.

traitors, fitting out ships to cruise against the American

commerce, vi. 32.

youth, vi. 55.

traitors on board French privateers, vi. 286.

morals, vi. 314.

anecdote; a conversation with a Frenchman, vi. 13.
- humility. Petition of the masters of vessels to the

Spanish Governor, vii. 43.

lotteries, vii. 44.

papers, impartiality of, in the account of the mutiny in

the British fleet, vii. 58.

vii. 115.

elections, vii. 108.

Academy's of Arts and Sciences address to Mr. Adams,

forbearance towards France, vii. 133.

flag presented to the French nation, vii. 151.

trade with France, vii. 187.

degradation. Captain Dunbar flogged, vii. 221.

meekness. Captain Kennard, vii. 222.

compaffion, vii. 224.

Captains, vii. 290.

Envoys at Paris, vii. 303.

liberty of the press, vii. 331.

language; a projector received a prize medal from the

Philofophical Society, for inventing a new one, vii. 336.

loss and gain stated by amity with Great Britain, viii. 63.
gentleman in Europe, his letter on the conduct of

M'Kean towards Mr. Cobbett, viii. 174.

------, a real one, letter to Peter Porcupine on General Samuel
Smith's being a candidate, in oppofition to James Winchester,
Esq. as a representative in Congress, ix. 221.

- Judges, three of them bribed by Frederick Evans, ix.