31To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a few lines by the last post from this place just to apprize you of my movement to it. I have since seen the Richmond and the Philada. papers containing, the latter the certificate of Jay and King and the publications relating to the subject of it, the former the proceedings at Richmond dictated no doubt by the Cabal at Philada. It is painful to observe the success of the...
32Circular to American Merchants, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Complaint having been made to the Government of the United States of some instances of unjustifiable vexation and spoliation committed on our merchant vessels by the privateers of the Powers at War, and it being possible that other instances may have happened of which no information has been given to the Government, I have it in charge from the President to assure the merchants of the United...
33To Thomas Jefferson from James Cole Mountflorence, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
On Sunday next the 1st. September, I will sail for Amsterdam in the American Ship Cheeseman, from whence I will repair immediately to Paris. Should you wish to transmit any Communication to Mr. Short at the Hague or Mr. Morris at Paris, or to any other Person, I will most chearfully take charge of your Dispatches, and would take the greatest Care of them; In case the Vessel be visited by any...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Pinckney, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I send herewith the case of Mr. Phillip Wilson as stated by me to Lord Grenville and by him referred to the Lords of the Treasury: Some time after my first application on this subject Lord Grenville told me that on the report of Sir Willm. Scott the Kings Advocate General he had referr’d the matter to the Treasury as a compassionate case; I told him I considered it as a case of justice, but if...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A mediados del mes proximo pasado llegò à nuestra Noticia, que en una Sociedad de Franceses Jacobines establecida privadamente en esta Ciudad, se havia Resuelto formar una Carta, ê imprimir porcion de exemplares de ella Reservadamente, y dirijirlos con algun Emisario à la Luisiana para su circulacion, con el fin de Revolver Aquella Provincia, y hacerla independente del Dominio del Rey nuestro...
36Enclosure: Edmond Charles Genet’s Address to Louisiana, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Les Français Libres à leurs freres de la LOUISIANE. Le moment est arrivé ou le despotisme doit disparoitre de la terre. La France devenuë libre, constitueé en république, après avoir fait connoitre aux hommes leurs droits, après avoir remporté des victoires signalées sur leurs nombreux ennemis, non contente des succès dont elle recueillerait seule le prix, annonce à tous les peuples quelle est...
37From Thomas Jefferson to William Channing, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you copies of two letters from Judge Marchant to the President of the United States, and of sundry depositions taken by him, from which there is reason to believe that the Marshal of that district has been guilty of a very unjustifiable negligence, if not a connivance, in suffering the escape of a certain William James Davis, against whom he was charged with criminal process. It is...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Delamotte, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The sloop Hannah, Capt. Curvan goes on public account to Havre to carry public dispatches for Mr. Morris our minister at Paris. The Captain is to go with those dispatches himself to Paris. I take the liberty of mentioning this to you to ensure to them your particular aid and patronage should it be needed. Tho every precaution has been used to furnish them with every thing or the means within...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Hamilton, 26 August [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to Mr. Jefferson informs him that he has abandonned the intention of sending Mr. Little on being satisfied that the business may as well be confided to the Capt. of the Sloop. The Sloops name is the Hannah. The Capts. William Culver. The letter for our Consul at Havre is all that is now wanting to complete. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; with apparently...
40From Thomas Jefferson to James McHenry, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper came to the President from one of the unhappy fugitives of St. Domingo, of the name of Lentilhon, now at Baltimore. He represents himself as 63. years of age, labouring under a fever, uncomfortably lodged, wanting linen, outer clothes, and other necessaries, for the approaching winter, and his passage to France in the Spring. Without doubting that the assistance of the...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed papers should have been annexed to the documents of my letter of Aug. 16. but were omitted by inadvertence. They are therefore now inclosed to you separately. I have the honor to be with great esteem & respect Dr Sir your most obedt. servt. Mr. Genet’s answer to the address of the citizens of Philada. do. lately to do. at New York. The above contain his declaration that France did...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perceive by the enclosed affidavits that an act of piracy has been committed by a certain William James Davis, master of the English merchant vessel the Catharine on board an american Sloop called the Rainbow. He afterwards came with his vessel into Newport in Rhode Island, but having some intimation that process of piracy was issuing against him, he slipt his cable in the night and...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Thayer, Bartlet & Company, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 5. and of the two boxes of China, and Mr. Dowse’s letter . From the length of time (4. years) since Mr. Dowse had been so kind as to undertake to bring me a service of China, he apprehended I must have given up the expectation of it and supplied myself, and therefore in his letter desired me to consult my own convenience only, as it was...
44From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President Minutes of what passed on the subject of the letter to Mr. Genet. Also the draught of a letter to the Merchants . Both papers have been twice sent to the Atty. General’s, but he is not in town nor will be till tomorrow. RC ( DLC : Washington Papers); addressed: “The Preside[…]”; endorsed by Washington. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures:...
45From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 26 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to return to the President the memoir of M. Lentilhon, with a letter to Dr. Mc.Henry adapted to his case. Of the letter of M. Millet he can make very little. It is rendered difficult of comprehension by the bad English in which it is written: and still more by the imperfect and indigested views of the writer. He sees no distinct object in it but to get the President...
46To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Lisbon, 25 Aug. 1793 . He avails himself of the unanticipated sailing of a vessel for the United States to note that he has received, by the packet arrived since his last letter, a letter from the bankers of the United States in Amsterdam stating that they had TJ’s orders to hold at his disposal the residue of ƒ117,600 from the fund of ƒ123,750 they had received last year for Pinckney’s...
47From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will percieve by the inclosed papers that Genet has thrown down the gauntlet to the President by the publication of his letter and my answer , and is himself forcing that appeal to the people, and risking that disgust, which I had so much wished should have been avoided. The indications from different parts of the continent are already sufficient to shew that the mass of the republican...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of July 14. I asked the favor of you to send off the horse you had been so kind as to procure for me, on the 1st. of Sep. to meet Tarquin at Georgetown, who is to be sent from hence, there the riders to exchange horses, Tarquin to be carried to Monticello, and the other brought here. I have since that received your letter of July 31. and Maria has received one of Aug. 8. neither...
49To Thomas Jefferson from James Simpson, 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 25 Aug. 1793 . Having already written by this opportunity, he only mentions that the Portuguese consul was advised from Málaga that some days ago an American schooner, name and destination unknown, was captured off Vélez-Málaga by three Algerine cruisers, but that the crew had escaped and arrived at that port. Two of the cruisers were the small galleys he mentioned from Oran and the...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Jr., 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 25 Aug. 1793 .Intending to embark for Cádiz by the first opportunity, he asks for TJ’s commands. He will proceed immediately to Madrid to have his appointment acknowledged by the king and on 1 Jan. he will begin to pay strict attention to TJ’s letter of instructions. To end Algerine depredations on American trade and bring about a peace so much desired by merchants he offers, if TJ...
51From Thomas Jefferson to the Cabinet, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson submits to the Secretaries of the treasury and War and the Atty. Genl. some sketches of Notes to be signed for the President. As they are done from memory only, they will be pleased to insert whatever more their memories suggest as material. Particularly, the final conclusion as to the express-vessel will be to be inserted, which is most accurately known to the Secry. of the...
52From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond and incloses him a copy of a commission of a Mr. Moore to be Vice-Consul of Gr. Britain for the state of Rhode-island, on which an Exequatur is asked. As it has been our practice hitherto, where there is a Minister from the same nation, to issue Exequaturs only on his authentication of the Commission, Th: Jefferson takes the liberty of...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Johnson, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 24 Aug. 1793 . He has received TJ’s favors of 14 Nov. and 21 Mch. and regrets his intention to retire. Because of the great hardships and inconveniences to which he knew American seamen and commerce would be subjected by the war in Europe that took place prior to receipt of the second letter, he decided to remain in office until he learned the President’s pleasure about his...
54From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson with his respects to the President incloses a draught of the clause for the letter to Mr. Morris for his consideration. Tr ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Draft of the second paragraph of TJ to Gouverneur Morris, [23] Aug. 1793 .
55To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, with Jefferson’s Note, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President wishes the Secretary of State to let him know what measures, in his opinion, will be proper to be taken on the subject stated by the British Consul Genl. [ Note by TJ: ] Bond’s letter of Aug. 23. RC ( DLC ); in Tobias Lear’s hand, with note at foot of text by TJ; addressed: “The Secretary of [State]”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Washington received 26 Aug. 1793. Recorded in...
56To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President sends to the Secretary of State two letters which he has received from Baltimore, written by persons from St. Domingo. The President has no knowledge of the writer of the letter in English; but he wishes the Secretary of State to consider it, and if he thinks the circumstances therein mentioned deserve attention, the Secretary will communicate to the President such answer thereto...
57To Thomas Jefferson from James Anderson, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Nantes, 23 Aug. 1793 . Last night he arrived here from Paris, from which he traveled as cheaply as possible, and has been appointed consul for this port by Fenwick pending TJ’s approval, which he earnestly solicits in the event Carnes does not return to France. Nearly a year ago he wrote to TJ, upon Major Mountflorence’s recommendation, soliciting the appointment at Le Havre, which he...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly compliments to Dr. Barton, and being now in the act of sending off his books to Virginia, takes the liberty of asking from Dr. Barton the volumes lent him.—Th:J. has been for some time settled on the banks of the Schuylkill near Gray’s ferry, where he would always be very happy to see Dr. Barton, should his rides or walks lead him that way. His absence from...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Phineas Bond, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg Leave to inform You, I have directed Capt. Stewart, of the Brigantine Jane of Dublin, captured by the Privateer, Citizen Genet, Captain Johanene, to prepare an Estimate of the Value of his Vessel—her Cargo, Apparel and Furniture. I shall consider it as a particular Favor, if You will be pleased to point out the Mode of Valuation, which the Government of the United States will require, to...
60Cabinet Opinions on Edmond Charles Genet, 23 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
At meetings of the heads of departments and the Attorney General at the President’s on the 1st. and 2d. of Aug. 1793. On a review of the whole of Mr. Genet’s correspondence and conduct, it was unanimously agreed that a letter should be written to the Minister of the US. at Paris, stating the same to him, resuming the points of difference which had arisen between the government of the US. and...