Marginal corrections in ink.

Tipped in are clippings from newspapers including a letter to the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser , and a piece from a Baltimore paper relative to the Embargo.

Joseph Anderson, 1757-1837, jurist and senator, was Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury. This speech is in reply to Timothy Pickering and to Hillhouse, q.v.

In favor of the Embargo. Signed at the end by William Eustis, Chairman, and Caleb Bingham, Secretary.

Sent to Jefferson by William Eustis, who wrote from Boston on December 24, 1808: “The Republican Citizens of the Town of Boston, following the example of their fellow citizens, in this and other places, have exercised the constitutional privelege of assembling and expressing their opinions on the state of our public concerns.

"The enclosed resolutions are the result of their best judgment on the best lights in their power to obtain. In giving them publicity, they are not without a hope that they may have some little influence to correct impressions which have been made on the public mind by other proceedings, which, with due respect to the source from which they emanated, they conceive to be erroneous. In directing a transcript of them to be forwarded to the president of the United States, they intend an expression of their respect and confidence. The honor of transmitting them is devolved on me as their Chairman . . .”

For Jefferson’s connection with Dr. William Eustis as a medical man, see no. 903.

On the title is written: M ^r. Jefferson , not in the hand of Granger or of Jefferson. On page 18 Jefferson has written in ink a statement as to the increase on the National Debt under the Washington administration.

Gideon Granger, 1767-1822, was made Postmaster General by Jefferson in 1801. This pamphlet is in defence of Jefferson’s administration and the Embargo and includes a comparison of the administrations of Washington, Adams and Jefferson.