ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI- BITING A COMPLETE VIEW OF OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. IN TEN VOLUMES.-VOL. II. SECOND EDITION. INCLUDING CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. BOSTON: 1817. CIRI Cooned 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 Docu. ments, 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 thcreor fo the arts of Designing, Eograving and Etching Historical, and other Prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, CONTENTS. Page Documents accompanying the President's Message of April 4, 1794—continued from vol. I. .. Message, April 15, 1794, relative to despatches from Spain, and letter from British minister - 12 Message, May 12, 1794, relative to memorial of our minister in London on the grain trade - 13 Message, May 20, 1794, relative to the present state of certain hostile proceedings against the terri- Message, May 21, 1794, transmitting information re- lative to British and Indian encroachments 57 Message, May 23, 1794, transmitting letters from British minister, &c. relative to British and - Message, June 4, 1794, transmitting letter to British minister, relative to British and Indian en- Speech opening Congress, Nov. 19, 1794 - 81 Message, Feb. 28, 1795, relative to foreign inter- Speech opening Congress, Dec. 8, 1795 - 89. Message, Dec. 21, 1795, relative to treaty with Mo- Message, Jan. 4, 1796, transmitting address from French minister, presenting colours of France; |