331Editorial Note: Representation by France against the Tonnage Acts (Jefferson Papers)
He had suspected during the first session that some of his colleagues had hoped to destroy the confidence between the United States and France and now he was certain of it. Morris pleaded with him to join in the effort to postpone the discussion and Jefferson called on him in person. But the extent of Maclay’s embittered isolation from his colleagues and...
332Editorial 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...
333Editorial 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...
334Editorial 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.
335Preparations 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 (