STATE PAPERS AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ACCESSION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI- RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. 1806-8. 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. 1815. 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 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. WILLIAM S. SHAW, V-7 ADVERTISEMENT. THE second volume of the State Papers relating to our Foreign Relations since the accession of President Jefferson, comprising 1806-8, is now presented to the publick. Of the former, the publishers know, the larger part consisted of documents, in which the situation of our country was exhibited in a season of unusual prosperity, when the causes of great calamities, about which history chiefly concerns itself, were not proclaimed or perhaps suspected. That volume, though it contained much curious information, in the papers of nearly five years succession, could not be so interesting as the present, comprising documents for less than half that term. In this publication the politician will find the first mention of the origin of our long protracted negotiations with France and Great Britain, and on some of the most important questions between the latter nation and us the series of letters is almost completed. About 150 pages of the papers, accompanying the last message of the President inserted in the present volume, will be printed first in the succeeding. On pp. 34, 154, 153, certain letters are referred to, and the publishers observe, that they have never been printed. This mistake the reader will easily correct, for they accompany the President's message of 22 March 1808, in the order in which Congress first authorized their publication, except that it has not been thought expedient to print the same paper in two places. On page 268 of the first volume the message 6 December 1805 is alluded to, but not published. By the kindness of the Hon. Mr. Betton, a member of Congress at that time, the printers have been furnished with a copy, which is here inserted, as promised, for Appendix to Vol. 1806–8, |