WINDSOR FEDERAL GAZETTE, Vermont, June 28, 1803  The front page has a lengthy report headed: "Horrid Cruelty of Bonaparte!"
Page 3 has an item noting: "Dispatches were received...from Mr. Monroe. Nothing official has transpired...The profound silence which is observed concerning our own affairs, and the situation of Louisiana, is rather inauspicious. ...we may draw a very strong inference of unfavorable news from their silence."
This is a quite scarce title as it existed from just 1801 thru 1804. Aside from a recent purchase we have not had any issues of this title to offer in our 50+ years.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition.

Background: The June 28, 1803, issue of the Windsor Federal Gazette captures a profound moment of geopolitical anxiety and dramatic irony in early American history, catching the nation on the precipice of its greatest territorial expansion. The "profound silence" and pessimistic forebodings expressed by the editors regarding James Monroe’s negotiations in Paris highlight the intense domestic vulnerability Americans felt over control of the Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans. Unbeknownst to the anxious public due to the agonizingly slow two-month lag in transatlantic communication, Monroe and Robert Livingston had already signed the Louisiana Purchase treaty on April 30, 1803, effectively doubling the size of the United States for $15 million. Official news of this monumental diplomatic triumph would finally reach Washington just five days after this paper went to press, on July 3, 1803. Simultaneously, the paper's front-page condemnation of the "Horrid Cruelty of Bonaparte!" underscores the shifting geopolitical tides that made the purchase possible: Napoleon's brutal, failing campaign to suppress the Haitian Revolution and his escalating hostilities with Britain forced him to abandon his dreams of a New World empire, ultimately driving him to sell Louisiana to the United States to fund his impending European wars.