Two issues: Boston, February 12, 1814. Vol. X. No. 111. [manuscript ink inscription in upper center margin of front page] Bacus [sic]. [manuscript ink inscription in upper right margin of third page] ---?--- of the ---?--- of Bridgeport drawn by J. Backus [manuscript ink inscription in lower center margin of back page] Bridgeport Petition; No. 41. Boston, April 6, 1815.

Vol. XII [manuscript ink inscription in upper margin of front page] The right to the Fisheries not lost to the United States. By Joseph Backus. J. Backus. Fisheries. [This article appears on page 2 and begins]: The following article, by the author of the able essay which we copied some months ago, from a Connecticut paper, on State Sovereignty, will be found deserving of attention. [The essay is signed in print] Richelieu. March 18, 1815. [In the same space is inscribed in pencil] By J. Backus.