281Editorial Note: Death of Franklin (Jefferson Papers)
...Assembly. The characteristically bold expedient was dangerous not so much because it broke with diplomatic tradition or constituted an ill-conceived precedent, but because it involved the risk of injuring the friendly relations existing between the United States and France. Since the destruction of the alliance was a cardinal point in Hamilton’s policy, the bold allusions must have...
282The Defence No. XXXVIII, [9 January 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed at Paris on February 6, 1778. Articles 1 and 7 of this treaty read: “Art. 1. If War should break out betwan france and Great Britain, during the continuence of the present War betwan the......18) and Article 21 (originally 23) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France,...
283Editorial Note: The Consular Convention of 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...consuls, had been suffering loss and indignities at the hands of state authority. But before these sufferings Jay stood unmoved, voicing no such concern for the threat to relations between the United States and France as Madison and others had expressed. The national faith and honor were pledged to Great Britain by treaty, and Jay argued eloquently that the states should be called upon to...
284Editorial Note: The Debt to France: The Proposals of Schweitzer, Jeanneret & Cie. (Jefferson Papers)
...bankers had taken this precipitate step “to prevent his completing the negotiation … begun for the transfer of the American debt in a manner which would have been honorable and advantageous” for the United States and France as well as for the promoters. He thought the American government could not refuse to discharge a part of its debt now that it was in possession of 3 million livres and he...
285Preparations to Negotiate an Alliance with Great Britain: Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
). He assured the secretary of state that he was no longer needed in Paris and that his departure for London would not impair relations between the United States and France (
286Enclosure: 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...
287Draft of Question to Be Submitted to Justices of the Supreme Court, [18 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
I Do the Treaties between the United States and France give to France or her Citizens a This is a reference to the Consular Convention signed between the United States and France on November 14, 1788, and ratified by the Senate on July 29, 1789. For the text of this treaty, see
288Notes on Debates, 12–15 March 1783 (Madison Papers)
, XXIV, 245). For this reason the American peace commissioners had not broken the letter of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, but by not consulting Vergennes during the negotiation of the preliminary articles, they appeared to have violated “the spirit of the Alliance.” See
289The Defence No. XXV, [18 November 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
See Article 30 (originally 32) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778, which states that subjects of the United States might use “… the free Ports which have been and are open in the french Islands of America …, agreable to the Regulations which relate to......of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6...
290The Answer, [8 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
suspends all the commercial relations between the United States and France, by preventing the supplies looked for by France from this country.Commerce between the United States and France of February 6, 1778, see