1Enclosure I: Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 15 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
...place, had 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.
2From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 15 May 1793 (Jefferson 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...