1Cabinet 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
2Memorandum of Edmund Randolph, 14 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
...To illuminate his objections, Adet highlighted sections of Articles XVII, XVIII, XXIV, and XXV of the Jay Treaty and contrasted them with Articles XVII, XVIII, and XXIV of the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France....the establishing of a new negotiation between the United States and France, since, in a new treaty, France could not renounce the...
3To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
had “contravened that part of the supreme law of our land … found in … the treaty of commerce between the United States, and France: ‘no shelter or refuge shall be given in their ports to such as shall have made prize of the subjects, people or property of either of the parties; but if such shall come in, being forced by...
4To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 21–24 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
, XI, 51–54), but if the legislators considered other matters pertinent to the proposed consular convention between the United States and France, they may have concluded that the statute of 24 December 1779 “for the protection and encouragement of the commerce of nations acknowledging the independence of the United States of America” covered the subject adequately (
5Edmund 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.”
6Memorandum from Edmund Randolph, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
For Article 17 of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, signed in 1778, see