State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States from the Accession ...

insertion is requisite for the completion of the series on the principles assumed, the request for its communication is renewed; and the publishers will gladly print it in the Appendix to the other series of State Papers, during the administrations of Washington and Adams. Of that series, it is presumed, every purchaser of the present would choose to have a copy.

It has been regretted, that the volumes have not been num. bered, but this is not an important defect. Indeed each volume is numbered on the inside, at the foot of every eighth page; and in the Index references are made to such numerical division. In the binding the distinction of years was preferred for the outside, for this obvious reason, that, as the title is "American State Papers," and the same title will be adopted for the earlier series, of which it is not even yet known whether it may be contained in three or in four volumes, it remains uncertain, whether the first volume of this work will finally be numbered as fourth or fifth of the general collection from the commencement of our federal government.

On the subject of confusion of dates, from the insertion of papers of one year after papers of later years, we refer inquirers to the few words of explanation in our advertisement to the third volume. It is there sufficient, though so brief, that we may be excused for adding another word. We have uniformly, unless the contrary is notified to the reader, given the papers in the order that government communicated to them. Every one must understand, that when, at the opening of a session of Congress, the communications from different countries are displayed, the order to be followed should be such as to give the best understanding of the subjects. The letters from England should be printed without mixture of letters from France, though the dates of some of the latter may be before some and after others from the former. So, in the great questions about blockades and impressments, much was written, which the government thought best not to make publick for several years, when it acquired an interest from the new communications which the old were wanted to explain. Some errours of dates, in which the printers fol. lowed the official papers, are corrected in the Index, which, it is believed, will be found sufficiently copious.

The work has swelled under the hands of the publishers to five volumes, though it was not expected to fill more than four. This would be a cause of regret, were not the importance of the matter enough to satisfy every subscriber of the value of his acquisition. In the present extraordinary situation of the old world, these pages acquire a new interest with every politician, whose sagacity is exerted to discover how our country may be implicated in the relations of Europe.

BOSTON, May, 1815.

CONTENTS.

MESSAGE, Nov. 7, 1811, transmitting Turreau's letter of
Nov. 14, 1810, and Serurier's of July 23, 1811

Message, Nov. 13, 1811, transmitting Correspondence

between Messrs. Monroe and Foster, and termination

of difference relative to the Chesapeake

Report of Committee on Foreign Relations; systematick
aggressions of the two great belligerents, Nov. 29, 1811

Message, Jan. 16, 1812, transmitting Report of Secretary

of State; trade to France subject to severe restrictions

Message, Jan. 16, 1812, transmitting letter from Mr.

Foster to Mr. Monroe, and answer

Message, Jan. 17, 1812, transmitting letter from Mr.

Foster to Mr. Monroe, and answer

Message, March 9, 1812, transmitting correspondence of
John Henry, Gov. Craig, &c.

Report of Committee of Foreign Relations relative to

Henry, Craig, &c. March 19, 1812

Message, March 13, 1812, transmitting letter from Mr. Fos-

ter to Mr. Monroe, relative to letters of Henry, Craig,&c.

Message, recommending an Embargo, April 1, 1812

Message, May 26, 1812, transmitting correspondence be-

tween Secretary of State and Mr. Barlow, minister at

Paris

Mr. Barlow to Duke of Bassano

Duke of Bassano to Mr. Barlow

Message, recommending war with Great Britain, June
1, 1812

Correspondence between Mr. Foster and Mr. Monroe

Correspondence between Mr. Monroe and Mr. Russell

Report, or Manifesto of causes of War with Great Bri

125

Message, June 4, 1812, transmitting correspondence of
Secretary of State with British Plenipotentiary

Report of French Minister of Foreign Relations, March

10, 1812

Message, June 8, 1812, transmitting correspondence of
Secretary of State with Mr. Foster

Message, June 11, 1812, transmitting correspondence of
Secretary of State with Mr. Foster relative to Indian
hostilities

Documents relative to a seaman claimed by the British

Report of Committee relative to excitements of Indians by

British, June 13, 1812

213

Message, June 15, 1812, transmitting letters between the
Secretary of State and Mr. Foster

242

Message, June 16, 1812, transmitting letter from Mr.

Russell to Secretary of State, &c.

250

Message, June 22, 1812, transmitting copies of letter from

Mr. Russell to Secretary of State, and from Lord Cas-

tlereagh to Mr. Russell

259

Message, July 6, 1812, transmitting documents relative

to British impressments

Message, July 6, 1812, transmitting Report of Secretary of
State relative to British and French seizures and con-
demnations of American ships and property

Message, July 1, 1812, and Documents relative to the

Floridas

Message opening Congress, Nov. 4, 1812

Documents accompanying President's Message, Nov. 4,

1812; Correspondence of Secretary of State, Mr. Rus-

sell, Lord Castlereagh, French Minister of Marine, &c.

proposed Armistice, Orders in Council, French De-

crees, &c. &c.

Mr. Erving to Secretary of State, April 12, 1812; capture
of American vessels in the Baltic, &c. &c.
Message, Nov. 12, 1812; sequel of Mr. Russell's Cor-
respondence with Lord Castlereagh