Excerpt from Proceedings of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: In Session at Boston, in the Year of Our Lord 1810 T the last session we had the happiness of mutual congratulation on the prospect of amicable adjustment of our national differences with one of the great belli gerents of Europe, and of a revival of our commerce, so essential to the prosperity of this Commonwealth. Subsequent events show our relation to the powers at War to be in a most critical and alarming state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.