RC (DLC: Madison Papers); addressed: “James Madison junr. near Orange court house”; franked. PrC (DLC); added by TJ in ink at foot of first page: “Madison James.”

The conversation over George Logan’s departure led TJ to visit Deborah Logan at Stenton on 22 or 23 June, using a circuitous route to elude “his spies.” TJ advised Logan to express her “thorough consciousness” of her husband’s innocence and honor by showing herself in Philadelphia “as one not afraid nor ashamed to meet the public eye.” She made the trip shortly thereafter (Logan, Memoir description begins Francis A. Logan, ed., Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton, by his widow Deborah Norris Logan, Philadelphia, 1899 description ends , 75–6). On 21 July Porcupine’s Gazette reported that TJ “went to his friend Doctor Logan’s farm, and spent three days there, soon after the Doctor’s departure for France. Quere: What did he do there? Was it to arrange the Doctor’s valuable manuscripts?”

On 16 June Bache published a letter from Talleyrand to the American envoys dated 18 Mch., before it had been officially released by the Adams administration. This convinced William Cobbett and the Federalists that Bache had received it from France or from a French agent in America “for the express purpose of drawing off the people from the Government, of exciting discontents, of strengthening opposition, and to procure a fatal delay of preparation for war.” According to Deborah Logan one of the reasons TJ had prolonged his stay in Philadelphia was to learn how Robert Goodloe Harper would “make out with his conspiracy” announcement (Porcupine’s Gazette, 16 June 1798; Logan, Memoir description begins Francis A. Logan, ed., Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton, by his widow Deborah Norris Logan, Philadelphia, 1899 description ends , 75). On 19 June Porcupine’s Gazette announced that TJ was seen going into Bache’s house “on the very day that the dispatches appeared.” For the controversy surrounding Bache’s publication of the Talleyrand letter and the efforts to associate TJ with treasonous correspondence, see note to Fulwar Skipwith to TJ, 17 Mch. 1798. For Harper’s charges in the House, see 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 , 8:1972, and Smith, Freedom’s Fetters description begins James Morton Smith, Freedom’s Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties, Ithaca, N.Y., 1956 description ends , 102–6.

Upon receiving the message and communications from the president, the Senate voted to have 500 copies printed (JS, description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820–21, 5 vols. description ends 2:513–14). See Evans, description begins Charles Evans, Clifford K. Shipton, and Roger P. Bristol, comps., American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of all Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America from … 1639 … to … 1820, Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–59, 14 vols. description ends No. 34825. The letter from Gerry to the president was dated 16 not 14 Apr. 1798 (Message of the President of the United States, to Both Houses of Congress June 21st, 1798 [Philadelphia, 1798], 2).

On a printed copy of the bill to declare the treaties with France void, TJ recorded changes as the Senate considered the preamble or manifesto, which consisted of 92 lines of text (DNA: RG 46, Senate Records, 5th Cong., 2d sess.). See also TJ to Madison, 7 June.

Forgeries of bank paper: the bill “to punish frauds committed on the Bank of the United States” passed the Senate on 22 June and the House four days later. Senators John Laurance, William Bingham, and Jacob Read were directors of the Bank of the United States as was Representative Harrison Gray Otis (JS, description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820–21, 5 vols. description ends 2:515, 518; U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States … 1789 to March 3, 1845, Boston, 1855–56, 8 vols. description ends , 1:573–4; Longworth’s American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory, for the Twenty-third Year of American Independence [New York, 1798], 65). A letter from Bingham to TJ of 13 Feb. 1797, recorded in SJL as delivered “by Hope, Baring & Beecker” on 30 Apr. of that year, has not been found.