AND, PUBLICK DOCUMENTS THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI- RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. VOLUME IV. 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. HARVARD Y SEP 17 1962 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 Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an act, entitled, "An act sup plementary 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, April 3, 1798-communications from X. Y. Z. &c. Message, May 4, 1798, transmitting all communica- tions from Envoys in France, excepting those ' Message, June 5, 1798, transmitting further commu- nications from Envoys in France Message, June 18, 1798, transmitting further commu- Message, June 21, 1798, announcing the arrival of Message, Jan. 18, 1799, transmitting Mr. Gerry's Mr. Skipwith's communications from France Message, Jan. 21, 1799, transmitting Report of Secre- tary of State, relative to late negotiations with Message, Jan. 28, 1799, transmitting French arret, 93 |