STATE PAPERS AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI. RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. 1797. BOSTON : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY T. B. WAIT & SONS. Published also by Whiting and Tiffany, New Haven; Henry Whipple, Salem; and Moses David Tale, agent for the States of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. 1815. US DOL 443.10 Doc 140.15 1489545 539216 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT: BE it remembered, That on the Sixteenth day of September, A. D. 1815, and in the for tieth 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 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. 47 CONTENTS. Page. Letter from Mr. Pickering, Secretary of State, to Mr. Pink- ney, Plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris, Correspondence between Secretary of State and French Message, June 12, 1797, relative to Spanish opposition to Message, June 22, 1797, relative to depredations on the commerce of the United States since October 1796 Report of Secretary of State relative to capture of American vessels by Spanish, British and French cruisers Documents accompanying President's Message, June 22, 1797 462 |