1From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 25 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the Exequaturs for Messieurs Pennevert and Chervy and to return therewith the original commissions: and am with great respect Sir Your most obedt. & most humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The Min. Pleny. of the republic of France.” FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). Enclosures: (1) Exequatur for Citizen Chervi as French vice-consul at Alexandria, 24 Dec....
2From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 18 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President your letter of the 16th. instant, and in consequence thereof have written to the Attorney General of the US. a letter of which I have the honor to inclose you a copy, and to add assurances of the respect with which I am Sir Your most obedt & most humble servt RC ( DLC : Genet Papers); at foot of text: “The Min. Pleny. of the Republic of France.” PrC ( DLC ). FC...
3Edmund Randolph to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I do myself the honor of informing you that the French Ship L’Orient of Bengal now lying in the port of Philadelphia attracts the attention omit these words (and excites the suspicion) of the Executive. It is represented that on her arrival she was a private ship the property of the French East India company and though armed was without a public Commission (had a complete military equipment...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 18th. instant , on the subject of the bills drawn by the administration of St. Domingo in favor of certain citizens of the US. I am instructed to inform you that the funds therein mentioned have been so clearly understood on all hands to be specifically appropriated for the payment of the bills which were recognised by the former agents of France here, as to be...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the copy of a letter from Mr. Moissonier Consul of France at Baltimore to the Governor of Maryland, announcing that Great Britain is about to commence hostilities against us, and that he purposes to collect the Naval force of your Republic in the Chesapeak and to post them as a Van-guard to derange the supposed designs of the enemy. The bare suggestion of such a...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to you the Memorial of Nicholas Cruger and others, citizens of the US. owners and underwriters of the schooner the York. They set forth that their vessel had been sent on a voyage to the Spanish coast in the bay of Mexico, with a cargo assorted to that market, and armed as usual in such cases; that on their return, being distressed for water and other...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the desire expressed in your letter of the 14th. instant, the President will give the instructions necessary for the settlement of the instalments of principal and interest still due from the US. to France. This is an act equally just and desireable for both parties: and though it had not been imagined that the materials for doing it were to be had here at this moment, yet we...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 29 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A complaint is lodged with the Executive of the united States that the Sans Culottes, an armed privateer of France, did on the 18th. of may last capture the British brigantine Fanny within the limits of the protection of the united States, and sent the said Brig as a prize into this port, where she is now lying. I have the honor to enclose you the testimony whereon the complaint is founded....
9From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [15–22 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your publication in the newspapers in the form of a letter to me of the date of Oct. 27. reached me thro’ that channel soon after it’s date. It had before been known to the Pr. in the same way. It was not necessary therefore to communicate to him the MS. copy I had the honor of receiving from you afterwards. Nor did I suppose an answer expected. You had found my name and office convenient as a...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 2. I took the liberty of noticing to you that the commission of Consul to M. Dannery ought to have been addressed to the President of the US. He being the only channel of communication between this country and foreign nations, it is from him alone that foreign nations or their agents are to learn what is or has been the will of the nation, and whatever he communicates as...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 10 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inform you that the District Attorney of Maryland is this day instructed to take measures for finally settling the case of the British brig Coningham captured by the French privateer the Sans Culottes of Marseilles, and reclaimed as taken within the jurisdiction of the United States, in which he will proceed as I had the honor of stating to you in my letter of Nov. 10. I...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 6 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of the notice given to the Governor of Pensylvania of the apprehensions that a number of the emigrants of St. Domingo might be returning hence to the island in a hostile form, enquiries were set on foot, the result of which I have the honor to inclose for your information; and am with respect Sir Your most obedt. & most humble servt PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “the Min. Plen....
13From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 15 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the several letters you have done me the honor of writing on the subject of tonnage and duties demanded at the Custom houses on the vessels and goods of the fugitives from St. Domingo, I have to inform you that the opinion being that the terms of the law did not authorize the Executive to dispense with those demands, I have taken the proper measures for having the subject...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 9 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of June 25th. on the subject of the Ship William, and generally of vessels suggested to be taken within the limits of the protection of the United States by the armed vessels of your nation, I undertook to assure you it would be more agreeable to the President that such vessels should be detained under the orders of yourself or the Consuls of France than by a military guard, until...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 16 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of the 10th. inst. on the subject of the arrest of Capt. Johannene and his vessel the Citoyen Genet, which you supposed to have been by order of the Executive. This I knew could not be; because the Judiciary being sovereign within their department, they would no more act under an order from the Executive or Legislature, than these would presume to give one. I was...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of the 6th. instant, and can assure you with real truth of the readiness and zeal with which the Executive will concur in preventing within the limits of the United States any preparation of hostilities against France or her Colonies, as far as this can be effected by the exertion of that portion of the public power with which they are invested by the laws. Your...
17Enclosure II: George Clinton to Edmond Genet, 30 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of the Request contained in your Letter of equal Date, I have issued my Requisition to the Judges & other Officers of this State to give all due Aid and Assistance (pursuant to the 9th Article of the Consular Convention between our two Nations) for the Search Seizure and Arrest of the Deserters (mentioned in your Letter) from the Ship Jupiter belonging to your Republic —It may...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 30 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of the 25th. inst. on the subject of vessels belonging to the enemies of France which have procured arms within our ports for their defence. Those from Charleston and Philadelphia have gone off before it was known to the government, and the former indeed in the first moments of the war, and before preventive measures could be taken in so distant a...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 4 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your letter of the 2d. inst. reclaiming the French Vessel the Republican, as being captured within the limits of the protection of the US. I have desired of the British minister that she may be detained till enquiry can be made into the fact. In the mean time I must ask the favor of you to furnish me with the depositions or other competent testimony of the fact, that the...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 11 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of laying before the President your Memorial of the 22d. of May proposing that the United States should now pay up all the future instalments of their debt to France, on condition that the sum should be invested in produce. The President having fully deliberated on this subject, I have now the honor of inclosing you a Report from the Treasury department, made in consequence...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Genet. He will be at his office at half past after eight tomorrow morning, and must be with the President precisely at nine. If this short interval will suit Mr. Genet, Th:Jefferson will be happy to devote it to him. If not, the length of time he will be engaged with the President is so uncertain that he could not give him a fixed...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 6 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to Mr. Genet the letter &c. he mentioned to him yesterday. The parties are substantial. The samples of wood are arrived in Philadelphia, but not delivered. They shall be sent to Mr. Genet. RC ( ICHi ). Not recorded in SJL . The enclosed letter , not found, had been transmitted in William Foushee to TJ, 23 May 1793 .
23From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears indespensable to adjust disagreeing Ideas with regard to the State of the Account between France and the UStates, that as much as shall be found practicable should be done without loss of time towards a settlement of it. With this view I have instructed the Accounting Officers of the Treasury to proceed in the business as soon as there shall appear some person on your behalf to...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson having forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury the application of Mr. Genet on behalf of Mr. Vanuxem, has now the honor to inclose to Mr. Genet the answer he has received, and of assuring him of his respect. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). Enclosure: Alexander Hamilton to TJ, 23 May 1793 .
25From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 9 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd. instant, which has been duly laid before the President. We are very far from admitting your principle, that the government on either side has no other right, on the presentation of a consular commission, than to certify that, having examined it, they find it to be according to rule. The governments of both nations have a right, and...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I laid before the President of the US. your two letters of the 11th. and 14th. instant on the subject of new advances of money, and they were immediately referred to the Secretary of the treasury within whose department subjects of this nature lie. I have now the honor of inclosing you a copy of his report thereon to the President in answer to your letters, and of adding assurances of the...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [ca. 16 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 22. received during the absence of the President, could not be laid before him till his return, and then has been of necessity postponed to matters which pressed more in point of time. In point of importance nothing could more require attention than the doctrines laid down in the Protests of the Consuls of France at New York and Philadelphia, sanctioned by the cover of your...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 8 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now to acknowledge and answer your letter of September 13. wherein you desire that we may define the extent of the line of territorial protection on the coasts of the United States observing that Governments and jurisconsults have different views on this subject. It is certain that heretofore they have been much divided in opinion as to the distance from their sea-coasts to which they...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter which I had the honor of writing you, I mentioned that information had been recieved that Mr. Duplaine, Vice-Consul of France at Boston, had been charged with an opposition to the laws of the land, of such a character, as, if true, would render it the duty of the President immediately to revoke the Exequatur whereby he was permitted to exercise the functions of Vice-Consul...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present his respects to Mr. Genet and to acknolege the receipt by the hands of a Courier, of his letter of Nov. 12. and two others of Nov. 16. which shall be immediately communicated to the President. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). The letter of Nov. 12. was actually Genet’s 14 Nov. 1793 letter about John Jay and Rufus King, which according to
31From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 17 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received and laid before the President, your letter of the 14th. instant, stating that certain judiciary Officers of the united States, contrary to the law of nations, and to the treaties subsisting between France and the united States, had arrested certain vessels and Cargoes taken by a French armed vessel and brought into this port, and desiring that the authority of the President...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. instant covering the information of Silvat Ducamp, Pierre Nouvel, Chouquet de Savarence, Gaston de Nogeré and G. Beustier, that being on their passage from the French West Indies to the United States, on board merchant vessels of the United States with slaves and merchandize of their property, these vessels were stopped by British armed vessels and their property taken...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [7 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The correspondence which has taken place between the Executive and yourself, and the acts which you have thought proper to do, and to countenance, in opposition to the laws of the land, have rendered it necessary in the opinion of the President to lay a faithful statement of them before the government of France, to explain to them the reasons and the necessity which have dictated our measures,...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that in consequence of the general orders given by the President, a privateer fitted out by English subjects within the state of Georgia to cruize against the citizens of France has been seized by the Governor of Georgia , and such legal prosecutions are ordered as the case will justify. I beg you to be assured that the government will use the utmost vigilance to...
35From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Having laid your letter of the 19th instant before the President for his consideration and direction, I have now the honor to give you the following answer. According to our view of the state of our account with France, the payments already made exceed the installments which have heretofore fallen due; though the want of having ascertained a rule for liquidating those which were made in...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall be late in acknowledging the receipt of your several letters written since my departure from Philadelphia, not having received any of them till the 24th: ult: and most of them only the last night. I have already laid some of them before the President and shall lay the others successively before him at as early moments as the pressure of business will permit. That of September 30. with...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 29 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The persons who reclaimed the Ship William, as taken within the limits of the protection of the united States, having thought proper to carry their claim first into the Courts of Admiralty, there was no power in this Country which could take the vessel out of the custody of that Court, till it should decide itself whether it had jurisdiction or not of the cause; having now decided that it has...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 15 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respectful compliments to Mr. Genet has the honor to inform him that his letter of the 3d. inst. on the subject of an advance of money, came to hand on the day the President had set out on a journey to Reading. That of yesterday on the same subject, is received this day. Both shall be laid before him on his return. RC ( AMAE : CPEU, Supplément, xx ). PrC ( DLC ). Genet’s
39From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of June 5th. I had the honor to inform you that the President, after reconsidering at your request the case of vessels armed within our ports to commit hostilities on nations at peace with the united States, had finally determined that it could not be admitted, and desired that all those which had been so armed should depart from our ports. It being understood afterwards, that...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I had the honor of writing to you on the 12th. of July I informed you that the President expected that the Jane of Dublin, the Lovely lass and Prince William Henry, British vessels taken by the armed vessel Citoyen Genet, should not depart from our ports until his ultimate determination thereon should be made known. And in a letter of the 7th. of August I gave you the further...
41From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, [1 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his Compliments to The Minister Plenipotentiary of France. Among the bills presented to the Treasury as having been refused by him is one for 135 Dolls. & 51½ Cts which was payable the 3d. of June. It was taken for granted, that all the Bills which became due in the first fortnight of June had been satisfied. The contrary appearance is an additional...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [May 1793?] (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson présente Ses respects à Mr. Genet et lui renvoie les pamphlets marqués à rendre, avec mille remerciemens pour la lecture qu’il lui en a procuré. On peut également renvoyer les autres si Mr. Genet en a le moindre besoin vu qu’après une lecture ils deviendront inutiles. On desirerait cependant garder les Résultats du Commerce &ce. qu’il serait bon de garder dans les Bureaux. Tr...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 1 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
[…] to correct an error of fact into […] being just led into it myself […] concerning the trespass committed by [a British] sailor on the French flag on board the Amiable. I mentioned it to a gentleman present, who informed me that the sailor [who made the insult?] and another concerned in it, were in jail, […] mentioned to you. I found on further enquiry that these two sailors were British,...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your favor of the 2d. inst. informing me of a conspiracy among the refugees from the French colonies now at Charleston, to undertake an expedition from thence against the said colonies, I communicated the information to the Governor of S. Carolina , with a desire that he would prevent every enterprize of that nature. The other matters contained in the same letter...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 11 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Genet and sends him Mr. Cassan’s Exequatur, with the original commission. Mr. Genet’s letter of Oct. 15. , covering it, had been sent on by post to Virginia while Th:J. was on his way to this place, and did not get to his hands till the day before yesterday. PrC ( DLC ). Enclosures: (1) Genet’s Commission to Jean Baptiste Cassan as...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 6 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15th. of Nov. on the subject of your bills refused paiment at the Treasury, was duly laid before the President and referred to the department of the treasury, a copy of the report from which I have now the honor to inclose you, and am with great respect Sir Your most obedt. & most humble servt RC ( AMAE : CPEU, Supplément, xx ); at foot of text: “The Min. Pleny. of the...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the absence of the President of the united States, I have consulted with the Secretaries of the Treasury and War, on the subject of the Ship William, and generally of vessels suggested to be taken within the limits of the protection of the united States, by the armed vessels of your nation, concerning which I had the honor of a conversation with you yesterday, and we are so well assured of...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 1 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Note of the 27th. of May on the subject of Gideon Henfield, a citizen of the United States, engaged on board an armed vessel in the service of France. It has been laid before the President, and referred to the Attorney General of the United States, for his opinion on the matter of law, and I have now the honor of enclosing you a copy of that opinion....
49From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of May 15th: to M. de Ternant, your predecessor, after stating the answers which had been given to the several memorials of the British Minister of May 8th: it was observed that a part remained still unanswered of that which respected the fitting out armed vessels in Charleston to cruise against nations with whom we were at peace. In a conversation which I had afterwards the honor...
50From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, [18 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to the Minister of France, regrets extremely that by a neglect of the person to whom the Minister’s Note of the 16th was delivered it did not get to the hands of Mr. Hamilton till this Morning which has prevented an earlier attention to it. Mr. Hamilton is just going to attend a summons of the President. If he shall find that the object of it will not...