ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO TAE PRESIDENCY, EXHI. BITING A COMPLETE VIEW OF OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. 1797-1801. BOSTON: Thomas, Philadelphia. 1815. us Doc 443.10 US 851 5392.6 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:, BE it remembered, That on the Sixteenth day of September, A. D. 1815, and in the fora 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, 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 of State and of War relative to posts occupied by Spain Speech opening Congress, Nov. 23, 1797 Message, Jan. 23, 1798, transmitting Report of Secretary of State and Documents relative to affairs with Spain on Mississippi, and intercourse with Indians Message, Feb. 5, 1798, relative to French captures and outrages in the harbour of Charleston, &c. Message, March 5, 1798, transmitting despatches from our Message, March 19, 1798, relative to despatches from En. voys in France, and recommending measures of pro. Message, April 3, 1798, transmitting instructions to, and despatches from our Envoys in France-communica. Message, May 4, 1798, transmitting all communications from Envoys in France, excepting those before pre. Message, June 5, 1798, transmitting further communica. Message, June 18, 1798, transmitting further communica. Message, June 21, 1798, announcing the arrival of Gen. |