1To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
...be subjected to all the duties which are there laid on the mass of foreign Vessels. . . . And consequently our own Vessels in the carrying Trade between the United States and France would be in a worse situation than French Vessels. . . . And if the principle of the Regulation cannot be deemed safe in a permanent view, it ought not to be admitted temporarily; for inconvenient precedents...
2Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
, 2:207–9, 211. For the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, both 1778, between the United States and France, see
3Cabinet Opinions on the Roland and Relations with Great Britain, France, and the Creek Indians, 31 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
, 26:68–71). For the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, see