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To Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, April 3d. Importance of punctuation.; To The Attorney General Of The United States, April 24th. Embargo and the Orders in Council; To The United States Minister To France, May 2d. Correspondence - A paroxysm of insanity in Europe - Embodying the militia; To General Benjamin Smith, May 20th. Approval of embargo law - How long advantageously continued; To The Secretary Of State, May 24th. Various negotiations with Spain; To Doctor Thomas Leib, June 23d. Glad of approval of fellow citizens - Agreement with larger part of Federalists - Discontinuance of embargo; To General James Wilkinson, June 24th. Wilkinson and the Burr conspiracy; To Thomas Mann Randolph, June 28th. British newspaper fabrication - New York newspapers - Sinking of De Witt Clinton - Burr's flight in disguise; To Meriwether Lewis, July 17th. Misfortune to Mandane chief - Astor's Western affair - Foreign affairs do not clear up - Presidential question clearing; To John Langdon, August 2d. Pleasure in approval of embargo - Possibility of Britain becoming honest - One war enough for the lifetime of one man; To The Secretary At War, August 9th. Infractions of embargo in New England - Consequent removals - Boston Tories threaten insurrection; To The Secretary Of The Treasury, August 11th. Embarrassment of embargo law - A sudden and rash growth of fraud - Possibility of calling out militia - Vessels allowed foreign ministers; To The Secretary At War, August 12th. Indian affairs - Seizure of the Floridas.
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