The efficacy of gunboats for the defense of harbors and of other smooth and inclosed waters may be estimated in part from that of galleys formerly much used but less powerful, more costly in their construction and maintenance, and requiring more men.
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$2,000 were deposited in the hands of the Attorney-General of the United States to pay expenses incident to the prosecution of Aaron Burr and his accomplices for treason and misdemeanors alleged to have been committed by them.
$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.
His high station and the relations of Russia to the predominant powers of Europe must give him weight with them according to the vicissitudes of the war.
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