[PIRATES] US Government report of PIRACY against the United States, 1825

Monroe, James; Calhoun, J. C.; et al. [PIRATES] Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information relative to Piratical Depredations, &c. furnished in pursuance of Two Resolutions of 21st and 23d December last. 18th Congress, 2d Session, no. 15. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1825. First Edition. [11795]

Removed, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 40 pp., foxing. Good. Pamphlet.

James Monroe is President of the United States, and John Quincy Adams is Secretary of State. This is a report compiled and transmitted by them to Congress regarding the means for suppressing piracy upon United States vessels, and includes "the number of merchant vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States, with their names, owners, and value of merchandise, which have been captured or plundered, and of injuries inflicted on citizens of the United States by the pirates, since the first of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-three; and the number of pirates, and piratical vessels, with the names of the said vessels, that have been taken by our naval force since that period of time..."

Includes extracts of letters, with the reports being written from Cuba and Porto Rico.