STATE PAPERS AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS of THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXΗΙ- RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. 1797-1801. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY T. B. WAIT SONS. David Hale, agent for the States of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Thomas, Philadelphia. 1815. US Doc 443.10 488515 5392.6 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: BE it remembered, That on the Sixteenth day of September, A. D. 1815, and in the for tieth 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 George Washington 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 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 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." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. -7 CONTENTS. Page DOCUMENTS accompanying President's Message, of June 21, 1797, relative to French depredations Abstract of French depredations since October 1, 1796; - also schedule of American vessels captured by the Message, July 3, 1797, transmitting Reports of Secretaries Speech opening Congress, Nov. 23, 1797 Message, Feb. 5, 1798, relative to French captures and outrages in the harbour of Charleston, &c. Message, March 19, 1798, relative to despatches from En- |