1From James Madison to John Armstrong, 2 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
JM referred to the Quasi-War between the United States and France. Curaçao surrendered voluntarily to the British in September 1800 (Clowes,
2From James Madison to Abraham Van Bibber, 26 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Statement Showing the Payments of Awards of the Commissioners Appointed under the Conventions between the United States and France
3From James Madison to William Bradford, 23 March 1778 (Madison Papers)
.... And yet, by early 1778, the government of Queen Maria I was exhibiting restlessness against the longstanding commercial entente with England. Rumors were afloat that the Portuguese court would soon attune its commercial policy with that of the United States and France (
4From James Madison to Congress, 1 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
...of the British Cabinet to its unjust Edicts, that it received every encouragement, within the competency of the Executive branch of our Government, to expect that a repeal of them, would be followed by a war between the United States and France, unless the French Edicts should also be repealed.
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 October 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
alliance between the United States and France was insincere and transitory
6James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
7From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1790 (Madison Papers)
. Gives his views concerning the application of the treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and France to the latter’s protest of the United States tonnage acts.
8From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1784 (Madison Papers)
alliance between the United States and France
9James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 7 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...that he was to cease immediately carrying out the functions of the office. The French general also accused Lear of discouraging American trade with the island and of acting “to excite differences” between the United States and France. Lear vehemently denied the allegations, but consented to the revocation of his duties as commercial agent. Lear left Cap-Français on 17 Apr. and arrived at...
11James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 25 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
12From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1799 (Madison Papers)
To the President of the United States, the Secretary of State Respectfully Submits the Following Report on the Transactions Relating to the United States and France
13Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
For “An Act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof,” 17 Feb. 1800, see
14James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
15James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
16To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 25 December 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
During a debate in the House of Representatives on 15 Dec. 1796, Fisher Ames alluded to newspaper accounts to prove that the crisis in relations between the United States and France was caused by
17To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 22 January 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...other documents, the first being a long letter from Timothy Pickering to Charles C. Pinckney of 16 Jan. 1797, which Madison described as “corrosive.” The Pickering letter, with accompanying documentation, reviewed relations between the United States and France since 1793 and served as an answer to the numerous complaints cited by Pierre Auguste Adet in his letter to Pickering of 15 Nov....
18From James Madison to Rufus King, 16 May 1803 (Madison Papers)
...if not all other nations, and disregarded even in her own practice, were a principle in the French Code, it could be applied to Mr. Le Couteulx only, in a discussion between the United States and France. Great Britain would be barred from all interest in the case, by the epoch of the naturalization which was that of peace between her and France. But this principle never existed in the...
19From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe, 2 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
...it is evident, will be, or can be admitted to be produced in that Treaty or in the arrangements carried into effect under it, further than it may be superceded by stipulations between the United States and France, who will stand in the place of Spain. It will not be amiss to insist on an express recognition of this by France as an effectual bar against pretexts of any sort not compatible...
20From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 6 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
...and affirming that on no other condition Spain would have ceded it to France. In the second note dated Sept. 27 it is urged as an additional objection to the Treaty between the United States and France, that the French Government had never completed the title of France, having failed to procure the stipulated recognition of the King of Etruria from Russia and Great Britain, which was a...
21From James Madison to Robert R. Livingston, 31 March 1804 (Madison Papers)
..., without removing the sources of collision lurki⟨ng un⟩der a neighborhood marked by such circumstances, an⟨d which⟩ considering the relations between France and Spain ⟨cannot⟩ be interrupted without endangering the friendly r⟨elations⟩ between the United States and France. A transfer ⟨from Spain⟩ to the United States of the Territory claimed by the
22From James Madison to James Monroe, 5 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
This article is taken from the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France, who appears to have borrowed it from corresponding stipulations in the Convention between the United States and France in the year
23From James Madison to James Monroe, 26 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
...Citizens. One is, that the circumstances in which Spain was placed disabled her from controuling the wrongs done by French Citizens; the other, that the Convention between the United States and France having relinquished the claim of indemnities against the latter, Spain became thereby absolved also; inasmuch as the relinquishment to France would otherwise be so far frustrated, by her...
24From James Madison to Charles Pinckney, 12 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
...so absurdly blended with the project the offensive communication of the perfidy which she charges on the First Consul? If it be her aim to prevent the execution of the Treaty between the United States and France, in order to have for her neighbour the latter instead of the United States, it is not difficult to shew that she mistakes the lesser for the greater danger, against which she...
25From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 10 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
...” JM signified the British naval headquarters there. Congress, reflecting the provisions of the preliminary treaties of peace agreed upon by Great Britain with the United States and France, adopted a proclamation on 11 April 1783 declaring that in the Atlantic Ocean north of the latitude of the Canary Islands hostilities had legally ceased on 3 March, which was one month subsequent to...
26From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 7 January 1783 (Madison Papers)
...” JM omitted 285, signifying “cy.” He underlined the ciphers for “tacit.” Article VIII of the “Treaty of Alliance, Eventual and Defensive,” concluded between the United States and France in 1778, reads: “Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain, without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay...
27From James Madison to Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 4 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
Here is an explicit and positive recognition of the right of the United States and France to enter into the transaction which has taken place.
28Notes on Debates, 12–15 March 1783 (Madison Papers)
, XXIV, 245). For this reason the American peace commissioners had not broken the letter of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, but by not consulting Vergennes during the negotiation of the preliminary articles, they appeared to have violated “the spirit of the Alliance.” See
29Notes on Debates, 11 April 1783 (Madison Papers)
...n. 3. Congress had received an official copy of that treaty on 12 March but delayed ratifying it until 15 April, thus conforming with the pledge given in Articles I and VIII of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France (Hunter Miller, ed.,
30“Helvidius” Number 3, [7 September] 1793 (Madison Papers)
Suppose, that after the conclusion of the treaty of alliance between the United States and France, a party of the enemy had surprised and put to death every member of congress; that the occasion had been used by the people of America for changing the old confederacy into such a government as now exists,...