1Enclosure: Extracts on Relations Between United States and France, 28 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
United States and France
2Draft Consular Convention between France and the United States, [before 24 December 1783] (Franklin Papers)
On August 29, just before the United States and France were to sign their definitive peace treaties with England, Vergennes’
3From John Adams to United States Senate, 11 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
The President of the United States did, on the ninth instant, approve and sign an Act, which originated in this House, intitled “An Act further to suspend the Commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof.”
4Introductory Note: View of the Commercial Regulations of France and Great Britain in Reference to the United States … (Hamilton Papers)
When the Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed between the United States and France in 1778, provision was made for each power to have most-favored-nation privileges,...United States and France the French policy was as favorable to the United States as possible in view of the pressure of commercial interests for a mercantilistic policy. Largely through the efforts of Jefferson, who as...
5Editorial Note: Jefferson, the Aurora, and Delamotte’s Letter from France (Jefferson Papers)
...in addition to Delamotte’s were those written by Charles Louis Clérisseau on 23 May and William Short on 27 Dec. 1797, and neither of those seems to have introduced anything fresh on the subject of relations between the United States and France. They and Delamotte’s of 23 Jan. were the only letters that Jefferson received from France during late March and early April 1798.
6From John Adams to United States Congress, 5 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
Whenever the Channels of Diplomatical communication between the United States and France shall be opened, I shall demand satisfaction for the insult and reparation for the injury.
7From John Adams to United States Senate, 25 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
To be Envoys Extraordinary—and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the French Republick with full Powers to discuss and settle, by a Treaty all Controversies between the United States and France.
8Remarks on the Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation lately made between the United States and Great Britain, [9–11 … (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 19 (originally 21) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of February 6, 1778, between the United States and France (
9Cabinet Opinions on the Roland and Relations with Great Britain, France, and the Creek Indians, 31 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
, 26:68–71). For the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, see
10Enclosure: France and America, [2 October 1800] (Hamilton Papers)
...clearly shewn by Mr. Jefforson, in his correspondence on the subject, and has been otherwise amply demonstrated, that this treaty did nothing more than adopt the principle as a rule to be observed, between the United States and France, with regard to each other when one was at peace, the other at war—that it did not bind either party to enforce or insist upon the rule as against other...