AND 12 PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI- RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. VOLUME VI. 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. Dr. 290ct.1938 LIBRARY gardner W. Allen DEPOSITED IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 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 Bouks, 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. 1, 11 and x1, instead of the first should be the twelfth day of January. CONTENTS. DOCUMENTS relative to attack on frigate Chesapeake continued Message, Nov. 11, 1807, relative to Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli Message, Nov. 13, 1807, transmitting President's proclamation inter- dicting the harbours and waters of the United States to British Message, Dec. 7, 1807, relative to Chesapeake and Leopard Message, Dec. 18, 1807, recommending embargo Message, Feb. 2, 1808, communicating British orders in council - Page Message, March 22, 1808, relative to England and France Message, March 22, 1808, and documents, exhibiting a complete view Correspondence between Mr. Madison and Mr. Rose on same subject 124 Letter from Mr. Madison to Mr. Monroe, Jan. 1804, transmitting plan Same to same, Feb. 1804, relative to north west boundary between Same to same, May, 1807, relative to northern boundaries Three letters from Mr. Monroe to Mr. Madison, March, April, August, Project of a convention presented to lord Hawkesbury, April, 1804, Correspondence of Mr. Monroe with lord Mulgrave, Aug. to Nov. 1805, |