N AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHI RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME. IN TEN VOLUMES. -VOL. II. SECOND EDITION. PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF CONGRESS. INCLUDING CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY T. B. WAIT AND SONS. 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 inents, 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." CONTENTS. Message, April 15, 1794, relative to despatches from - 13 - Message, May 21, 1794, transmitting information re- Message, May 23, 1794, transmitting letters from |