1Enclosure I: Josef de Jaudenes to Edmund Randolph, 16 August 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
With no small concern I see myself obliged to inform you, that no progress has been made in the negociation pending between the King my master and the United States on account of the reason I so often gave your predecessor, by writing and conversation, that His Majesty would enter into no Treaty if the powers delegated to the Ministers of the States were not ample or that they had private...