AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ACCESSION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI- RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. 1801-6. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY T. B. WAIT & SONS. Published also by Whiting and Tiffany, New Haven; Henry Whipple, Salem; and Moses David Hale, agent for the States of Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. 1814. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: BE it remembered, That on the twelfth day of November A. D. 1814, and in the thirty. ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas B. Wait and Sons of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they, claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit: "State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency, exhibiting a complete view of our Foreign Relations since that time." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “An act for the en couragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical, and other Prints." WILLIAM S. SHAW, L-A ADVERTISEMENT. THE publick are now presented with the first volume of the State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency, exhibiting a complete View of our Foreign Relations since that time. The publishers confidently believe, that the undertaking in their proposals will be considered as honourably fulfilled, so far as this part of the work could include the papers contemplated to be printed. Of the rule by which they have been governed in their labours it may be necessary to say a few words; rather, however, to show what was excluded than what was introduced under it. Such documents, as the following, the publishers have not thought proper to include, because they were thought not so much connected with the subject of our relations with foreign powers, as our domestick economy. President's message of January 12, 1802, laying before Congress "a letter from the Secretary of State, containing an estimate of the expenses necessary for carrying into effect the convention between the United States of America and the French Republick." A letter from the Secretary of the Navy to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, January 23, 1802, enclosing" copies of the instructions heretofore given by this department to the commanders of vessels in the publick service-authorizing the capture of vessels belonging to the French Republick." |