DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

District Clerk's Ofice. DE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, A. D. 1824, and in the

D 48th year of the Independence of the United States of America, Cushing & Appleton, 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:

"A Review of the Correspondence between the Hon. John Adams, Aate President of the United States, and the late William Cunningham, Esq. beginning in 1803 and ending in 1812. By Timothy Pickering."

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, hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extend. ing the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other priņts."

JOHN W. Davis, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

CONTENTS

PAGE

Introduction. - - -

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SECTION 1

Thomas Jefferson. - - - - - - - 9

SECTION II.

John Quincy Adams, and Mr. Jefferson's Embargo. - 41

SECTION III.

The Causes, pretended and real, for removing T. Pickering

from office-The Mission to France in 1799- The Par-

don of Fries. - - - - - - - : 63

SECTION IV.

Elbridge Gerry-Mr. Adams's Minister to the French Re-

public; and a further account of the Mission instituted

in 1799. • - • •

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110

SECTION V.

Lieut. Col. William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of Mr.

Adams. • . .

• ' . - 143

SECTION VI.

Alexander Hamilton. . - -

- - 156

SECTION VARM

George Washington." ;

Conclusion. .

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APPENDIX

1. Extracts from Callénder's pamphlet entitled "The Pros-

pect Before Us ;" referred to in page 13. - - 183

2. Letter from Mr. Jefferson to Lieut. Governor Barry, of

Kentucky, on the Judiciary ; referred to in page 16. 184

3. Note B, referred to in page 24. Concerning Mr. Jeffer-

180

4. Note C, referred to in page 25. Correspondence of T.

Pickering with Mr. Adams, on the Declaration of Inde-

pendence. - - - - - . - - - 186

5. Note D, referred to in page 25. Mr. Jefferson's Draught

of the Declaration of Independence- And the Declara-

tion as amended and adopted in Congress. - - 188

6. Note E, Remarks on the Treaty and Conventions, re-

lating to the cession of Louisiana to the United States. 196

Kr The recurrence of Mr. Adams to the same topics, in various
parts of his Correspondence, and the arrangements of the principal
subjects, in this Review, have occasioned some repetitions of the
same facts and remarks.

ERRATA.

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5. Line 10, for slandered read reproached.

21. Strike out the marks of parenthesis, in the 11th and 13th

lines from the bottom.

29. Line 19, from the top, insert of before Louisiana.

* 39. Line 13, from the bottom, insert if before insincere.

166. Line 3, from the top, strike out the before rank.