RC (DLC: Madison Papers); unsigned; endorsed by TJ as received 10 June 1794 and so recorded in SJL.

The correspondence between Secretary of State Edmund Randolph and British minister George Hammond of 20–22 May 1794, promptly submitted to Congress by the President, concerned Lord Dorchester’s provocative speech of 10 Feb. 1794 predicting to a delegation of the Western Indians that Great Britain would be at war with the United States within a year and would then enlist the assistance of Indian warriors, as well as a report received by Washington that Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe and three companies of British regulars were on their way to build a fort at “the foot of the rapids of the Miami.” In responding to these grievances with his own litany of complaints about American infringements on British forts on the frontier and infractions of neutrality on the coast, Hammond admitted that he could neither confirm nor deny the report, but he promised to seek clarification from British authorities in Canada and London (Philadelphia Gazette, 26 Mch., 24 May 1794; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1832–61, 38 vols. description ends , Foreign Relations, i, 461–3; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1832–61, 38 vols. description ends , Indian Affairs, i, 477–82). The 24 May 1794 motion for re-enacting the embargo was withdrawn the same day by its author, Alexander Gillon of South Carolina, and easily defeated when he made the proposal again five days later (Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834–56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , iv, 722, 731–4).