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There is reason to believe that in that state alone there are at least one thousand subscribers for the present edition. The publisher, in no case, has ever printed or proposed to print the names of subscribers; but a patronage so liberal, and from a quarter so respectable, demands an acknowledgment: a list of the subscribers' names will therefore be inserted at the end of vol. XII. An omission has been discovered in the preceding editions, which is most sincerely regretted: It is the Inaugural Address of President Adams. How this could have been overlooked or forgotten by the publisher he knows not. It was not because Mr. Adams himself, or his high qualifications as a statesman, or his ardent patriotism, or his moral excellence, had been forgotten: these had been the subjects of unceasing admiration from the commencement of that great revolution, of which he was a founder, a supporter, and an ornament-an admiration which continues undiminished at the moment of writing this apology. CONTENTS. PRESIDENT WASHINGTON's first Speech to the Con- gress of the United States, April 30, 1789 Message, Sept. 29, 1789, noticing a letter from the Speech opening Congress, Dec. 8, 1790 Report of Secretary of State, Dec. 28, 1790, relative to trade of United States in Mediterranean Message, Dec. 30, 1790, relative to American priso- Message, Jan. 17, 1791, relative to France Message, Jan. 19, 1791, relative to France 28 Message, March 5, 1792, transmitting letter from king of France, announcing acceptance of national Message, March 7, 1792, relative to negotiations at Message, April 13, 1792, transmitting correspondence relative to commerce with Great Britain Message, May 8, 1792, relative to Algiers Speech opening Congress, Nov. 6, 1792 Message, Nov. 7, 1792, transmitting papers relative Message, Dec. 16, 1793, relative to Spain Message, Dec. 16, 1793, transmitting report of Secre- Report of Secretary of State on the privileges and re- strictions on the commerce of the United States in foreign countries, Dec. 16, 1793 Message, Dec. 23, 1793, transmitting papers relative |