61To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 February 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose an extract for your Report to the House of Representatives of the 23d. of January 1792 which contains all that was then said respecting the Loan Office Certificates bearing Interest on a nominal Capital. It would have been sent sooner if the Report could have been readily found. I am Dear Sir, with perfect respect, your most obed. servt. ALS , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress....
62To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 18 June 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Letters of June 13th. & 15th. for which I thank you & I inclose the statement you desire. I had in season taken measures for receiving our Debt on Loan in Amsterdam. The plan is to surrender the existing obligations to the Comrs. who in lieu thereof issue triplicate descriptive Certificates to the Creditors—any one being produced at the Treasury will command the new Stock....
63To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 10 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your several Letters dated June 22d. 26th. 30th. & the 2nd. current. The non publication of the Treaty, was a measure not consistent with my first impressions & expectations. It was not however left by the Senate in the manner you suppose. Their resolution indeed evinces the contrary—& the Executive must in addition to whatever difficulties would have attended a publication, if...
64To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 28 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
You see that attempts are made to stir up a flame & convulse the country respecting the Treaty: though the actors hitherto are known to be a factious set of men & their followers generally a contemptible mob, yet from the systimatical manner in which they have proceeded and some curious facts which have recently come to my knowledge, I cannot but suspect foul play , by persons not generally...
65To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 30 July 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have your Letter of the 28th: I will see the Secy of War this morning, and you may rely upon it, that the movement will be suspended. The true state of things in this city is, that the Treaty was at first unpopular, the expectations of vain sanguine men, who considered this Country as all powerful & intittled to dictate, were not satisfied—every engine of faction was successfully set at...
66To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 3 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 3, 1795. On August 5, 1795, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have received yours of the 3d instant.” Letter not found. ]
67To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 15 August 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
The President has decided that the Treaty shall be ratified & transmitted for exchange immediately and in my opinion he has decided right. I regret that this was not done long since, as I presume much of the party spirit which has been excited would have been prevented. A government like ours can rarely take a middle course on any point which interests the public feelings—delay for whatever...
68To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 September 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. you Letter of the 20th. and regret the cause which deprived me of the pleasure of seeing you. Nothing is known of the authors to which you allude. The “Features of the Treaty” were doubtless painted by Dallas. Doctrs. Logan & Leib, Bache, Beckley, T. L. Shippen, are much suspected —S. Sayre of New Jersey is I understand very violent—perhaps the avowed intemperance of these men...
69To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I will in a few days inform you of the facts upon which my former Letter was predicated. The inclosed case of the Betsey Capt. Furlong excites much alarm here & I think with reason: the same principles will extirpate nine tenths of our claims for spoliations & lead to new assaults upon our Commerce. I wish to know your opinion of the mode of proceeding under the 7th. Article of our Treaty with...
70To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 October 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I send you abstracts of all the payments to the President to the present time. It is a fact that more money has been at times advanced than was due for service , but never a Dollar for which there was no Appropriation . The villany of the suggestion against the President has induced me to reply to the Calm Observer on the 26th. & 28th. You will see what I have said & the inclosed papers will...
71To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 2 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I enclose a statement of the Presidents account quarterly, which shews that he has not been in advance a quarters salary at any time. You will see that the Aurora denies that the members of Congress have ever recd. monies which were not earned & refers to a Letter of mine to prove the fact. I never wrote a Letter on the subject except to the Speakers Muhlenbergh & Trumbull in answer to an...
72To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 14 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 14, 1795. On November 16, 1795, Wolcott wrote to Hamilton : “I sent you on Saturday an imperfect translation of Fauchet’s letter.” Letter not found. ] Saturday was November 14, but Wolcott endorsed H to Wolcott, October 30-November 12, 1795 : “ansd. 13th. Nov. & sent on Copy of Fr—— Letters.…”
73To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 16 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Private I sent you on Saturday an imperfect translation of Fauchets Letter I now send you a Copy of the original; you may at your discretion use the Letter, except causing copies to be taken, or suffering it to be printed. Mr. Randolph has intensively circulated a Letter in which he attributes his disgrace to the artifices of a “British Faction” —his Letter is accompanied with an explanatory...
74To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 1 December 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I have not been able to ascertain all the points upon which you requested me to write to you. In February 1780 a Comtee. reported a conference with the Minister of France, the substance of which was —That the King of Spain wished for an alliance with the United States, but that it was necessary that the United States should explain their claims precisely. That the Cabinet of Madrid, construed...
75To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 15 January 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
The question upon the Constitutionality of the Act imposing duties on Carriages, will I expect be determined by the Supreme Court the next month. I request you if possible to attend the trial as Counsel for the United States. Mr. Lee the Attorney General is now here & will be able to inform you of the time when the trial will come on, and will concert with you the measures proper to be...
76To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 18 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, April 18, 1796. On April 20, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have received your letter of the 18th. instant.” Letter not found. ]
77To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 29 April 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your favour of the 20th. The affair with Bond stands thus, & is truly attended with some perplexing circumstances. The communication states, that provisional orders have been given for the surrender of the Posts whenever the House of Representatives shall have indicated an intention to give effect to the Treaty & when an article shall have been negociated explanatory of the sense...
78To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 14 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I am oblidged to you for the intimation in your Letter of the 9th. instant. I have known for some time that Mr. Swan has misrepresented my conduct—he knows that I have more than fullfilled my Contract, that it was an express agreement, that the risque & expence of transmitting the money from Paris to Amsterdam should be borne by him—that Mr. Monroe was a mutual Agent, not the Agent of the...
79To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 June 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I have your Letters of the 15th. & 16th. instant—that for the President will go on by the next mail. The affair of the Capture assumes a more equivocal character as respects the French Government than at first. In a confidential way from some of our Merchants I have reason to believe, that proposals were made to Mr. Murgatroy who built the Ship, by a Mr. Dunkinson an English Gentleman not yet...
80To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 28 [June] 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
No instructions have gone to the Collectors respecting the Entry of Prizes taken by French Privateers; it was expected that a general regulation would have been established by Law; since the rising of Congress every thing has recd. attention in the order which appeared to be most interesting—the point you mention was not forgotten, but it was supposed that as the Judiciary would interfere on...
81To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, July 6, 1796. On July 8, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have just received your letter of the 6th.” Letter not found. ]
82To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 26 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, July 26, 1796. On July 30, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott and acknowledged “the Receipt of your letter of the 26th.” Letter not found. ]
83To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 1 August 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 1, 1796. On August 3, 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I have received your letter of the 1st.” Letter not found. ]
84To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 7 August 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, August 7, 1796. At the top of a letter from Hamilton, dated August 5, 1796, Wolcott wrote : “recd. & ansd. the 7th.” Letter not found. ]
85To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 1 September 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Lieutenant Colonel Fleury has credit on the Books of the Treasury as a foreign Officer for Seven thousand, five hundred & Seventy Dollars & fifty eight Cents principal, for which there exists an appropriation; this sum will therefore be paid at any time on the production of a power of Attorney and the original Certificates. If however a transmission of the original Certificates would be...
86To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 October 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Permit me to ask your opinion on the following points. 1. Ought we or ought we not to permit Sales of Prizes to French national Ships of War, as formerly, in payment of duties? 2. In case of an affirmative answer to the first question; What is to be regarded as evidence of a national Ship? Will the Certificate of a French Commissioner in the West Indies, or of a Consul or the French Minister...
87To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 6 November 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
I fear that your opinion of Nov. 3d has been founded on a partial view of the case. You will remember that it has all along been a recd. opinion that the French had a right by Treaty to enjoy an indefinite asylum in our Ports: but that they could not claim the privilidge of selling Prizes in our Ports . The privilidge of an indefinite asylum in was also granted to British Ships of War &...
88To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 November 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
You must feel interested in knowing how our affairs stand with France, I give you a summary of them. The Note to Colo. Pickering contains a summary of all the complaints of France since the commencement of the present War. They are as follows. That the Courts of the United States have taken Cognizance of Prizes to French Vessells. That the Treaty has been misconstrued, by permitting the...
89To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 17 November 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, November 17, 1796. On December 21 1796, Hamilton wrote to Wolcott : “I did not understand by your letter of the 17th. of November whether you meant or not to authorise the immediate commencement of the sale of the Stock.” Letter not found. ]
90To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [8 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
I have recd. your Letter of Decr. 6th. The Warrant for the sum due to the Bank of New York was issued punctually, by some neglect or accident in the Treasurers Office, it remained undischarged. I have taken measures for the payment. By a Letter from Mr. Wilkes I find that the Bank claim a payment of Interest by way of discount and the 200.000 Dollars continued on Loan on the security of a...