ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. EXHI VOLUME XII. THIRD EDITION. PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF CONGRESS. INCLUDING CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS WORK. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THOMAS B. WAIT. 1819. 290 ct. 1938 LIBRARY Dr. Gardner Wallen DEPOSITED IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT : DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. Be it remembered, that on the twelfth day of January, A. D. 1819, and in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas B. Wait, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, 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. Third edition. Published under the patronage of Congress. Including Confidential Documents, first published in the second edition of this work." 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. The date of the certificate of copy right in Vols. I, 11 and X1, instead of the first should be the twelfth day of January. CONTENTS. MESSAGE, March14,1818,transmitting correspondence Page ment relative to the American and British naval force to be maintained on the lakes |