331Editorial Note: The Northwest Territory (Jefferson Papers)
The ensuing pamphlet and newspaper furor that took place in France in the spring of 1790, embroiling the Scioto affair in French political turmoils, was undoubtedly prejudicial to good relations between the United States and France.
332Draft 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’
333Introductory Note: To George Washington, 15 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
...condemned, as legal prize, a british vessel, captured by a french Frigate, and you justly add, that this judicial act is not warranted by the usage of nations, nor by the stipulations existing between the United States and France. I observe further, that it is not warranted by any law of the Land. It is consequently a mere nullity, as such it can be respected in no Court, can make no part in...
334Spain’s Finances and the Bills Drawn on John Jay Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
...would offer nothing more, Jay sent off yet another appeal on 21 November. “Thirty thousand pounds Stirling” ($133,200), he said, would end this “unhappy Business.” The “Evils” the United States and France would experience if the bills were protested, he argued, would cost France a “vast Deal more.” Franklin applied to Vergennes for a million livres tournois ($185,200) beyond what he had...
335Editorial 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.