have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and, should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety. "I repair, then, fellow citizens, to the post you have assigned me. With experience enough in subordinate offices to have seen the difficulties of this, the greatest of all, I have learned to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station, with the reputation and the favour which bring him into it. Without pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in your first and greatest revolutionary character, whose preeminent services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love, and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment: when right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own error, which will never be intentional; and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts. The approbation implied by your suffrage is a great consolation to me for the past, and my future solicitude will be to retain the good opinion of those who have bestowed it in advance; to conciliate that of others, by doing them all the good in my power, and to be instrumental to the happiness and freedom of all. k Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choices it is in your power to make; and may that infinite Power, which rules the destinies of the Universe, lead our councils to what is best, and give them a favourable issue for your peace and prosperity." ΤΟ PORCUPINE'S WORKS, IN TWELVE VOLUMES. N. B. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and the Figures to the Page. A A.B.'s letter to Governor Shelby, iii. 428. ix. 7. X.211. letter to Mr. Brown, news-printer, refpecting a surprise, letter to Friend Peter, on M'Kean's turning Quaker, Abercrombie's, Rev. Mr. letter to the O'Careys, v. 349. V. 235. A. C.'s letter to Porcupine on the patriotifm of his paper, viii. 27. Academy, female, in Philadelphia, xi. 242. Accommodation. Mr. Lee retracts his charge against Judge Livermore, xi. 33. Account of the infurrection in the western counties of Pennfylvania, in 1794, i. 221. of the rejoicings for peace at Philadelphia, iii. 437Act of the United States refpecting French royalifts, ix. 1. Adams, Mr. chofen Vice-prefident of the United States, 1788, i. 91. Mr. Vice-prefident of the United States, &c. iii. 29. 's, Mr. John, election to the office of Prefident, iv. 344. Prefident, his firft fpeech to the two Houses of Reprefentatives, iv. 344. Mr. John, took his oath of office, and delivered his first speech as Prefident, v. 16. vi. 65. , Prefident, ratifies the treaty of America with Tripoli, -, Prefident, his fpeech on dispatches received from General Pinckney, vi. 105. 242. Samuel, his proclamation to the people of Boston, ii. Prefident, his answer to the addrefs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vii. 117. -, Samuel, republican honefty, vii. 169. Adams, Adams, Prefident, his fpeech to the House of Representatives Prefident, his meffage to the House on a suspension of Prefident, nominates Wm. Vans Murray Minifter Plenipotentiary to the French Republic, x. 45. Prefident, his nomination of Oliver Elfworth, Efq. Mr. Samuel, Prefident of the Senate of Maffachusetts, Prefident, his letter to the House of Reprefentatives on xii. 29. Prefident, his fpeech in Congrefs, December, 1799, Mr. his answer to Tench Coxe's letter refpecting Mr. his recantation refpecting a letter on Mr. Pinck- his public conduct, xii. 150. Mr. his letters to the Houfes of Congress, and to the -, Prefident, his pardon of Fries, and other capital of- Additional facts, iii. 225. Addrefs, introductory, to the Gazetteers of Philadelphia, i. 147. of the Conftitutional Society of Sheffield to Meffrs. to Dr. Priestley, of the Philofophical Society at Phila- to the Prefident agreed to, with the names of the noes Prefident of the Senate's, on Mr. Adams's election to be 115. to the public, by Porcupine. Gazette Selections, V. 3. of the Academy of Arts and Sciences to Mr. Adams, vii. to the people of England, by Mr. Cobbett, vii. 315. and the Almanack-makers, v. 360. decamps, v. 366. and Talleyrand, vii. 98. Advantage Advantage to be derived in America from the French revolution, iii. 219. Advertisement extraordinary, v. 426. extraordinary, John Bolton and his wife, vi. 49. proving that the United States are the most free and enlightened people, figned, "But God has promised to protect the Poor," vii. 20. to the American Rush-light, xi. 211. Affair of the Vengeance, an armed French galliot, iv. 189. of the Callius, a French corvette, iv. 193. Africa, the releafe of all the French confined in the prefidencies there, demanded of Spain by Perignon, vii. 49. African school, United Irishmen ceafing to affemble there, viii. 221. Age of Reason, an attempt in it to justify the feizure of the Church lands, refuted, iii. 183. written while the author of it was in a dungeon at Paris, iii. 392. Agens, Bishop of, declaration when the oath, &c. was tendered him, iii. 197. Aliens, law refpecting them in America, xi. 356. Alleged offences against the Federal Government, by the Republic, examined, iv. 212. Allegiance, why due to the state where a person is born, iv. 234. and expatriation. Bill for preventing citizens from entering into foreign fervice, vi. 197. --, oaths of, viii. 13. Army of England, viii. 18. Allen's, Mr. fpirited remark in the House of Representatives, vi. 165. Mr. moved a resolution against Mr. Ifaac Clark, a member of the House of Reprefentatives, x. 4. Alliance, triple, early formed for throwing America into the scale of France, v. 292. Altorf, exactions of the French generals there, viii. 265. town and convent, for five days abandoned to extortion, &c. viii. 268. --, damages fuftained by it through French extortion, viii. 273. Almanack-makers, Adet's ridiculous complaint against them, iv. 342. Ambaffadors, French, bore the criminal orders of stopping the career of American profperity, x. 263. Amendment, restraining the Prefident from employing frigates as convoys, carried, vi. 217. propofed to the answer, as first reported, of the Reprefentatives to the Prefident's fpeech, vi. 132. America and Great Britain, difpute between, i. 343 and Great Britain might bid defiance to the world, iv. 315. --, a friend to, for Porcupine's Gazette; ferious thoughts on the state of America, ix. 182. America, United States of, defcribed, xi. 355. United States of, not provinces but fovereignties, xi. 355. American independence the greatest evil that ever befell England, i. 47. -state paper, iv. 149. Minister remonftrates against the decree of the 9th of tameness, v. 311. vanity in the excluding of the English from the Medi- -- political parties, v. 289. fpeculators in the funds, at an early period of the revolu- magnanimity, v. 281. traitors, fitting out flips to cruife against the American youth, vi. 55. traitors on board French privateers, vi. 286. anecdote; a converfation with a Frenchman, vi. 13. 100 lotteries, vii. 44. papers, impartiality of, in the account of the mutiny in vii. 115. elections, vii. 108. Academy's of Arts and Sciences addrefs to Mr. Adams, forbearance towards France, vii. 133. flag prefented to the French nation, vii. 151. degradation. Captain Dunbar flogged, vii. 221. meeknefs. Captain Kennard, vii. 222. compaffion, vii. 224. Captains, vii. 290. Envoys at Paris, vii. 303. liberty of the prefs, vii. 331. language; a projector received a prize medal from the 801 a real 318, Judges, three of them bribed by Frederick Evans, ix. American |