11To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 8 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already forwarded for you five copies of Dispatches, to inform you, that a Truce for twelve Months was concluded between Portugal and Algiers; and that a fleet of Algerine Cruizers had gone through the Streights into the Atlantic, on Saturday night last. They were reported to me by an officer of a Portuguese frigate who spoke with them, to consist of...
12To George Washington from David Humphreys, 30 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
For discussion of the truce agreed to by Portugal and Algiers in September 1793 but repudiated by Portugal in November of that year, see ...-operation." If hostilities resumed between Portugal and Algiers, "it will remain for the Court of Lisbon to decide, whether any useful Convention can be formed against a common Enemy and whether the naval war which has hitherto been defensive, cannot be...
13To George Washington from David Humphreys, 31 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
...He began by saying, that, with the candour he had always professed to me, he had no difficulty in explaining the whole rise & progress of the transactions between Portugal and Algiers to this time. That, although Portugal is not engaged at all in the war with France, yet it is obliged by Treaty to furnish Contingents to England & Spain on the occasion of their being attacked...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 12 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...directly or indirectly to negociate in behalf of her Majesty, they considered the business as only in embryo; but the british Court zealous over-much for the happiness of the two nations Portugal and Algiers, in order to precipitate this important business, very officiously authorized Charles Logie the british Consul-General and Agent at Algiers, not only to treat, but to conclude for and in...
15To George Washington from David Humphreys, 23 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Humphreys was referring to the September truce between Portugal and Algiers (see
16To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the British role in obtaining a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which left
American shipping in the Atlantic Ocean vulnerable to seizure, see
17Madison in the Third Congress, 2 December 1793–3 March 1795 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
...a series of British orders in council authorizing the Royal Navy to capture neutral ships trading with France or its colonies. Great Britain also arranged a twelve-month truce between Portugal and Algiers, thereby releasing Algerine corsairs to prey on American shipping. Federalists seized the initiative and called for a naval shipbuilding program. In several speeches, JM opposed the naval...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Gamble, 22 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will have heard that a truce between Portugal and Algiers has let loose those rovers on us. As they constantly go into port about the 1st. of December, and do not come out again till late in March our vessels
19To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
...to Britain’s failure to return western forts in accord with the treaty of Paris, her orders in council of November 1793 for the seizure of American vessels bound to France, the encouragement of a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which loosed the Barbary pirates against American commerce, and Lord Dorchester’s speech echoing Indian hostility to the United States. He "then said, that if a...
20To James Madison from Alexander White, 19 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
..., indeed nothing but anxious thoughts can arise from every reference to Forreign Nations. Every Nation no doubt has a right to secure peace to herself, but the manner in which that between Portugal and Algiers was brought about is truly alarming. I still however hope that by proper exertions on our part the greatest of all Calamities War, may be prevented—and that the People awakened by...