Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-06-05
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Forming fbs Wfb DONNIE, sF1ss tnS' Hrr1HSoH os
aGan, and bringing fbsseiS dsv0s to The
elose IF sbs late Wo,'
= citizen. of this country on the completion of
this important undertaking
No cauie Of complaint would have been fuggeGed
by any perfon, had fhs present volume cloEed with
the documents before the publick at the daie of
cur propolas. Although the full complement of
five hundred pages was occupied with tho!e 10
tina, time, January 1914, the pubiiihers have
Thought be(t to incur the expence Of about halt
another voiame 10 enable the community 70 receive
the comp etc Ter of Papers the ciole Of the war.
The nducement TO this gsatuttous exertIon for
the general diffufiou y i.ssDrmassOn was the very
liberal fubfcr,p,ion. M3.h which this work has
been recesvsd and the publiihers entersin no fears
of ultimate oss from the neglect of generous peo-
PIC.
Though the volumes embrace 10 many docu-
ments of luch diverthed relations with foreign
powers it is confidently believed tile collections "a
complete No labor has been tpAredto make q 10.
The opiuions of gentlemen whom the pu5'ifhers
have con uI,ed on Ibis iubjeGt, have not however,
in all cafes, been united 4 deiire has been ex-
prefed TO have the convention Of boundaries, as
iettled by Mr.. King between u and Greas Brit
ain, inferred Perhaps many would look for the
celebrated letter of lureau the freach mih'itsr,
relative TO which rhe itaement Ut Mr. GRAHAM Is
gwen by the leeretsry of ita'e with hs report
The iesler is prin,ed with the Journals OF The
Roulc But we have not thought oarteives per.
mitied 10 pubiih papers ct that knd, uaiels Sy
me prefiteut communicated 10 Congreis. and at
forwards by the Congrels given 10 their conititu
ents The iate war produced many ohiciai let
tiers and reports iueh az thole on retaliation, on
The manner in which the war was conducted BY
the enemy, aud treatment of prIioners. of which
our Judgment was, thar they were not within
The origluaI plan of undertaking Yet the ev,-
dence of the faie by the entmy OF iiaves. car
red from Virginia, is given, tho 1t n'ghs ieem
equally TO be excluded, becaufe IN the nitructions
of the fecretary 10 our pIenpoeatiares at Chen.,
it is introduced among, The other important Tub
ieess of advice and the omiliion of the document 10
fupport the nitfue9ions, might nol have been
iu aihabe. re, however, any paper be diicoyefed
by curious inquirers, Whole nferion is requ'il'e
for the completion of the series, on The principles
sfumed, the requef for Us communication is re
viewed add The pu5hlhers wll gladly print II
IN the Appendix TO the other ferries Of State Pa
pers, during The adminiGf atoms Of Warrington and
a6ams OF that series, il 10 prefumed every
purchafer of the pre.ent would chooe 70 have
copy
1t has been regretted that the volumes have not
been numbered, bu: this is not an important de
feet. Indeed each volume IL nun ,ered on the in-
lide. tie foot of every eighth page and IN the
Index references are made 10 iuch numerical di-
vlons Ia the bind Rg the diltintton Of years
was preferred for The oul ide, fer this obviou.
fon thai as the title is s. American ale Pa.
pers !" and the fame title viii be adopted for The
earlier ferries of which il lie not yet even known
.. he nod n III pc vol.
ume., it remains uncertain whether the fIF vol
ume of this work will finally be numheted as
f;ur,b or ff5 Of the general coslectiou from the
commencement of our federal government
On she iutiset of daes, from the Diertion of
papers OF one year after papers oi later yesrs.
wye refsf dquirers TO the few words OF explanation
10 our advertisement 20 the third volume I l.
here lutficient though 70 bret, tha, we may be
executed foe adding another word We have uai
formfy unlef. the contrary 10 notified to the fea
der, gwen The papers in the order thar govern
ment communicated to then, Every one mutt IN
derllznd, that en-, at the opening Of ieiil q OF
Congreis the Communications from different coun.
tries are dilpayed, the orderto be follows ihond
be iuch as to give the bef understanding OF the
futject. The letters f'om England LIQUID be
printed w!shou: MIXTURE Of letters fson France
th< ugh The date Of fome of the Ia ter may be be-,
in The great cueitions aoout olockades and impreh
men,.. much was written which the government
,houghr bet not TO make public for ieveral Year,,
when il required an intereIt from he new commu
n,cat;ons which the old were wanted 10 explain.
some errors of dates. 10 which the printers follow
ed tie official papers, corrected ia the Index
which il ia believed will be found Efficiently
copiou'.
The work has swelled under the hands of the
nuhtil,ers to Eve volumes though it was not Ell.
oefled 70 fiji more than four his would be
cause of regret, were not the importance of the
matter enough to fatisfy every inbicriner of the
value of his acqu6,ious. In The preient exfFsor-
binary ftuaion OF the old world, thele pages &C
quire new interef with every politician, whole
Tag aci.yis exerted ID diicovsr how our country
may be implicated in the relations Of Europe
u, Subscriptions for the fri ferries, compriGng
the State Pa ,ers of the Warrington and Adams
administrations, are yetreceivei.
The fubfrr;bers TO this work ia the Dilrics Of
Name will be fupplied with the sait volumes 70 Tie
cosrfe of Tane and July.,-As the puo'iihers will
pu, TO prels as foon as practicable the Sta.e Papers
of the Wilmington and Adams Administrations,
they reauea all ;ho(e who dehons Of eom-
pietiug their fets to engage them on the delivery Of
the laa volumes of the later feries.-Ihe puhic
will obferve, that the pabfiihera do nor contidsr
themfelves bound TO iupply any copies OF the
papers cf the Warrington aud adams Admnd
tra.ions, uuIeis fueh are engaged before the
work is put 10 preis.
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