61Pacificus No. III, [6 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the guarantee of the French West Indies by the United States contained in Article 11 of the 1778 Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France. See
62Draft 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
63From Alexander Hamilton to Charles François Bournonville, 10 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Edmond Charles Genet had asked Bournonville to settle with agents of the Treasury Department differences in the account between the United States and France. See
64Edmund Randolph to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 February 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
...answer, explanatory of this affair, and, if any intention of commissioning the L’Orient has been entertained, that it will be renounced. The removal of suspicion at its earliest stage is the surest mode of continuing between the United States and France that harmony which it will be always my wish to maintain.”
65Remarks 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 (
66The Defence No. XVI, [18 September 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 22 (originally 24) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778 (
67The Defence No. XVII, [22 September 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778. See Space left blank in MS, but H is referring to Article 11 (originally 13) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France. For this article, see
68The Defence No. XXII, [5–11 November 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (
69To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 16 November 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
...faction, which through him have been put in motion; from those who for the sake of party, interest, or personality, have propagated falsehoods in every town; or who persevere in the hatred of a connection between the United States and France;—what is become of their base assertions, that tens and hundreds of thousand dollars have been received from the French minister?…”
70The 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...
71Relations with France, [1795–1796] (Hamilton Papers)
There are circumstances, which render it too probable that a very delicate state of things is approaching between the United States and France. When threatened with foreign danger, from whatever quarter, it is highly necessary that we should be united at home; and considering our partiality hitherto for France, it is necessary towards this Union, that we should understand what...
72The 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,...
73To Alexander Hamilton from Gouverneur Morris, 4 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France of February 6, 1778, in which the United States guaranteed French possessions in America (
74To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 8 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington is referring to Article 23 (originally 25) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce concluded between the United States and France on February 6, 1778 (This guarantee was included in Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, which was signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (
75From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 30 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
This is presumably a reference to relations between the United States and France.
76To Alexander Hamilton from Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais, [October 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
received eight hundred thousand francs and agreed to abandon any further claims. For the text of the Convention between the United States and France, July 4, 1831, see
77From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [3 November 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
H is referring to Article 22 (originally 24) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778, which reads: “It shall not be lawful for any foreign Privateers, not belonging to Subjects of the most Christian King nor Citizens of the said United States, who have Commissions from any other...
78The 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
79To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 26 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed on February 6, 1778. See
80From Alexander Hamilton to Theodore Sedgwick, [26 February 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France signed at Paris on February 6, 1778. For information on the articles of the treaty which H wished to have modified, see
81The Warning No. VI, [27 March 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
6th of February, 1778, between the United States and France, the former Power engaged to defend the American possessions in case of war, and that the Government and the commerce of the United States have strangely abused the forbearance of the republic of France, in turning to its...
82To Alexander Hamilton from Rufus King, 2 April 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
King is referring to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, which was signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (
83Enclosure: [Notes on Conduct with Great Britain], [10 April 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
H is referring to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (This is a reference to the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (
84Enclosure: Answer to Questions Proposed by the President of the U States, [29 April 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
H is referring to the mutual guarantees in Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance concluded in 1778 between the United States and France. The United States guaranteed the present and future “Possessions of the Crown of france in America,” and France guaranteed the “liberty, Sovereignty, and Independence” of the United States (
85To Alexander Hamilton from John Williams, 7 June 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 23 (originally 25) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1778 between the United States and France, which stipulated that “free Ships shall also give a freedom to Goods” (
86Conversation with Robert Liston, [28 October 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 23 (originally 25) of the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France (
87To Alexander Hamilton from Francisco de Miranda, 7 February 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France: Addressed by Robert G. Harper, Esq. of South Carolina to His Constituents, in May, 1797
88To Alexander Hamilton from Timothy Pickering, 25 March 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
“II The diplomatic intercourse between the United States and France being at present suspended; the Government has no means of obtaining official information from that country; nevertheless there is reason to believe that the Executive Directory passed a decree on the 2d of March last, contravening, in part...
89The Stand No. I, [30 March 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
With an immense ocean rolling between the United States and France—with ample materials for ship building, and a body of hardy seamen more numerous and more expert than France can boast, with a population exceeding five millions, spread over a wide extent of country, offering no one point...
90The Stand No. II, [4 April 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France: Addressed by Robert G. Harper, Esq. of South Carolina to His Constituents, in May, 1797