...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be admitted to be produced in that Treaty or in the arrangements carried into effect under it, further than it may be superceded by stipulations between the United States and France, who will stand in the place of Spain.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...
2From 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
3From 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...
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of them, would be followed by a war between the United States and France, unless the French Edicts should also be repealed.
5From 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...
6Notes 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
7Notes 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.,
8From 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...
9“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,...
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 October 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
alliance between the United States and France was insincere and transitory
11Memorandum for Alexander J. Dallas, [ca. November 1814] (Madison Papers)
For John Quincy Adams’s transmission to the Russian government of James Monroe’s assurance that the declaration of war would not bring about closer relations between the United States and France, see
12From 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
13From 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.
14Notes on Debates, 19 March 1783 (Madison Papers)
That is, Article VIII of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, pledging joint action in concluding “either truce or peace with Great Britain” (...take a position contrary to a stipulation in the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France (n. 18). Lee most probably meant that Congress should have rescinded the instructions of 15 June 1781 limiting the...
15Notes on Debates, [30 December] 1782 (Madison Papers)
...that the treaty of peace must include (1) a recognition by Great Britain of the independence and sovereignty of the United States, and (2) no provision violative of the treaties of alliance and amity and commerce between the United States and France. See
16From 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...
17Report Revising John Adams’ Instructions, [5 July] 1782 (Madison Papers)
The portion of this paragraph enclosed in quotation marks is partially an extract from, and partially a paraphrase of, Article XIII of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France (
18“Helvidius” Number 5, [18 September] 1793 (Madison Papers)
...writer is better warranted in the fact which he assumes, namely that the proclamation of the Executive has undertaken to decide the question, whether there be a cause of war or not, in the article of guaranty between the United States and France, and, in so doing has exercised the right which is claimed for that department.
19James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
20From 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.
21From 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,
22“Helvidius” Number 1, [24 August] 1793 (Madison Papers)
That in particular the executive had authority to judge whether in the case of the mutual guaranty between the United States and France, the former were bound by it to engage in the war:
23From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1784 (Madison Papers)
alliance between the United States and France
24Committee Report on Tax Status of Friendly Aliens, [5 February] 1781 (Madison Papers)
...Portsmouth, had refused to pay the tax levied by the town upon his wares on the ground that he was exempt under the terms of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce concluded between the United States and France on 6 February 1778. Unable to contravert de La Tour’s argument, especially since it had the support of the French minister, the town officials appealed to the legislature, and it, via...
25Notes on Debates, 29 January 1783 (Madison Papers)
Regarding the comment written by JM in his footnote, Article XXII of the treaty referred to “select articles” of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France (
26James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
27From 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 (
28From 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...
29To 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...
30Instructions to Benjamin Franklin in re Consuls, [2 January] 1783 (Madison Papers)
...him from appointing vice consuls and consular agents as long as he was consul rather than consul general. He also pointed out that Article III of the proposed consular convention between the United States and France, adopted by Congress on 25 January 1782, “interdicted” the consular appointees “from all traffick or commerce for their own or another’s benefit.” In Barclay’s judgment this...
31Notes on Debates, 31 December 1782 (Madison Papers)
...first had commented to the effect that the American commissioners should agree to nothing which would extend greater trading privileges to the British than those guaranteed to the French in the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France. For the deleted passage JM substituted an approximate copy of the report of the committee as given in the printed journal of...
32James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 25 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
33From 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
34Memorandum 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
35James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
36James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 7 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
United States; and France [index entry]
37From 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
38From 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...
39To 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
40To 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....