OF THE

UNITED STATES,

FROM THEIR

FIRST SETTLEMENT AS ENGLISH COLONIES,

IN 1607, TO THE YEAR 1808;

OR,

THE THIRTY-THIRD OF THEIR SOVEREIGNTY AND
INDEPENDENCE.

BY DAVID RAMSAY, M. D.

CONTINUED TO THE TREATY OF GHENT,

BY S. S. SMITH, D. D. AND L. L. D.

AND OTHER LITERARY GENTLEMEN.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

PHILADELPHIA :

PUBLISHED BY, M. CAREY AND SON,
NO. 126, CHESNUT STREET:

FOR THE SOLE BENEFIT OF THE HEIRS OF THE AUTHOR.

May 1st, 1818.

The State of Parties; The Advantages and Disadvantages

of the Revolution; Its Influence on the minds and morals

of the Citizens.

CHAPTER XXIX.*

The discharge of the American army; The evacuation of New

York; The resignation of General Washington.

CHAPTER XXX.

Civil History of the United States, from 1783 to 1789.

Domestic Relations; Public Debt; Funding System; Bank

of the United States; Origin of Parties; Insurrection in

Pennsylvania; Its suppression.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Indian and Spanish relations; Defeat of St. Clair; Wayne's

victory; Treaty with Spain.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

French relations; Genet; Fauchet; Adet; Treaty of com-

merce.

CHAPTER XXXV.

British relations; Jay's treaty; Attack on the Chesapeake;

Right of search and impressment; Orders in Council, &c. 103

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Relations with the Barbary States; War with Tripoli;

Capture of Derne; Treaty, &c.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Mr. Jefferson elected president; Burr vice-president; Duel

between Hamilton and Burr; Burr's conspiracy; Appre-

hension; Trial; Acquittal.

*This ought to have been Chapter XXVII.

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