DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. BE it remembered, that on the twenty-eighth day of October, A. D. 1816, and in the forty-first 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 ten volumes. Second edition. Published under the patronage of Congress. Including Confidential Documents, now first published." 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, CONTENTS. DOCUMENTS accompanying President's Message, July 6, 1812, rela- Message, July 6, 1812, transmitting report of Secretary of State relative to British and French seizures and condemnation of Ame- Message, July 1, 1812, and documents relative to the Floridas Message opening Congress, Nov. 4, 1812 Documents accompanying President's message, Nov. 4, 1812; corres- pondence of Secretary of State, Mr. Russell, lord Castlereagh, French minister of marine, &c. proposed armistice, orders in coun- Mr. Erving to Secretary of State, April 12, 1812; capture of Ameri- - Message, Nov. 17, 1812, transmitting letter from Mr. Lear, consul at Message, Nov. 18, 1812, transmitting communication from Mr. Russell Message, Jan. 14, 1813. Proceedings of the Senate, Dec. 22, 1812, 144 lowing West India trade under special licenses Message, March 3, 1813, transmitting correspondence of Mr. Barlow Message, June 7, 1813, transmitting report of Secretary of State re- Letters from Mr. Russell to Secretary of State, before the war, rela- tive to orders in council, &c. Message, Dec. 9, 1813, recommending an embargo Message, Jan. 18, 1814, transmitting report of Secretary of State rela- Message, Jan. 18, 1814, transmitting report of Secretary of State rela- Message, Jan. 19, 1814, transmitting report of Secretary of State rela- - Message, Oct. 3, 1814, transmitting report of acting Secretary of State relative to existing state of our relations with continental powers Message, Dec. 1, 1814, transmitting last communications from Ghent Message, Feb. 18, 1815, transmitting copy of treaty of peace with Message, Feb. 25, 1815, recommending that American vessels be navi- Message, Feb. 28, 1815, transmitting report of Secretary of State rela- DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE OF JULY 6, 1812. [Continued from Vol. VIII] The Secretary of State to the President of the United States. Department of State, Feb. 20, 1900. THE Secretary has the honour to lay before the Pre sident 1. Mr. Liston's note of February 2d, 1800, with papers referred to relative to the rescue of three American vessels from the hands of the British captors, and for the restoration of which he is instructed by his government to apply. 2. Mr. Liston's note of the 4th February, together with his project of a treaty for the reciprocal delivery of deserters; which appears to the Secretary utterly inadmissible, unless it would put an end to impressments, which Mr. Liston seemed to imagine, while the 7th paragraph of his project expressly recognises the right of impressing British subjects, and consequently American citizens, as at present. TIMOTHY PICKERING. R. LISTON presents his respects to colonel Pickering, Secretary of State. I have, from time to time, taken the liberty of making verbal complaints to you, sir, respecting the practice lately become frequent among the masters and supercargoes of American merchantmen, of rescuing by force or by fraud such vessels as have been detained by the commands of his majesty's ships of war with a view to future trial in a court of admiralty. VOL. IX. I, in particular, mentioned the cases stated at large in the enclosed papers. The first is that of the brigantine Experience, detained on the 25th May, by captain Poyntz, of his majesty's ship Solebay. She came from Campeachy, was said to be bound for Charleston, (S. C.) and was loaded with logwood. The cargo was suspected to be enemies' property; and she was afterwards found to have a complete set of Spanish papers. The American master, Hewitt, and Howe, the supercargo, with the consent of the British seamen who were put on board to navigate her, overpowered the prize master, (Mr. Bryce) kept him prisoner several days, and at last, by threats and violence, forced him to leave the vessel and to go on board of a schooner bound for New Providence. The second is the case of the ship Lucy, commanded by a Mr. James Conolly, a native of Ireland, calling himself a citizen, of the United States, which was stopt on the 3d of June, by captain Ferrier, of his majesty's ship York. This vessel had smuggled one hundred and eightyseven new negroes from Jamaica. The captain found means to forge a clearance from the customhouse of Kingston, and afterwards loaded goods at the Havanna, partly the property of enemies, and partly belonging to a Mr. Courtauld, a British subject, who recently held a place in the customs under his majesty's government. A lieutenant, a quarter-master and ten men, were put on board the Lucy to conduct her to Jamaica; and with a view to accommodate the master and the other persons who were found in the vessel, Mr. Conolly, Mr. Courtauld, his nephew, two other passengers, with servants and seamen, amounting to twelve in all, were permitted by captain Ferrier to remain on board on their parole. They however secretly armed themselves, and in the night surprised the watch, confined the prize master and the British seamen, and carried the ship to Charleston. The third case is that of the Fair Columbian, Edward Casey, master, detained by his majesty's ship the Hind, in company with the sloop of war the Swan. She had come from the Havanna; had no sea brief or register on. board; was commanded by a person who had deserted about nine months before from his majesty's ship Polyphe |