1To James Madison from Samuel S. Cooper, 13 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
The law which suspended the commercial intercourse between the United States, and France and her dependancies having now expired,
2To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Lewis, 20 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...him to present this memorial. He was appointed consul to the Île de France and Bourbon Island a few months before communication was interrupted between the United States and France. He departed with his family planning to make his permanent residence there; after a six-month passage he arrived and immediately purchased and furnished a house. Expenditures for the move amounted to at least...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An article in each of those pacts guaranteed the free passage of ships and protected the cargoes of neutral vessels. Those provisions appeared also in a treaty between Russia and Sweden in March 1801. The convention between the United States and France included similar guarantees, Article 14 declaring “that free ships shall give a freedom to goods” (
4Notes for Speech by Samuel Miles Hopkins to the Electors of the Middle District, [17–24 April 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
The House rejected “A bill to continue in force an act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France and the dependencies thereof” by a vote of fifty-nine to thirty-seven. Several Federalists voted with the majority (
5To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 19 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
: the “Act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof,” approved 27 Feb. 1800, expired on 3 Mch. 1801 (
6To James Madison from William Vans Murray, 20 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
...I had the honour to receive your letter of the eighteenth of March, by which I am informed that it is the President’s pleasure that I set off for Paris to exchange the Ratifications of the Convention between the United States and France, and to settle the ulterior points connected with that subject.
7To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 9 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
ship on more than one voyage, sailing between the United States and France to repatriate captured seamen (Vol. 31:465–6n; Vol. 32:71, 89n).
8To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 14 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
by a Repetition but beg Leave to add That I am Confident That after my Father has done Every Thing in his power to serve both Countries of United States and France That I having followed his Example with Zeal, Integrity and Probity, you will take in your Wisdom my Critical Situation and not abandon me as a Bastard of not any Country?
9Levi Lincoln’s Opinion on the Betsy Cathcart, [3 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
: the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France. The article referred to by Lincoln, Article 19 when the treaty was negotiated, became Article 17 after other articles were deleted during the ratification process (same, 2:16–17, 32–3).
10From Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 11 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
cited the authority on international law Emmerich de Vattel as justification for restoring the ship to the condition it was in when it was taken and stated that the desire for a quick restoration of good relations between the United States and France was the motive for restoring the ship immediately, rather than after final ratification of the convention. The
11Memorandum on Restitution of Prizes, 15 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...Madison received a memorandum from Louis André Pichon, dated 10 July, that enumerated “unanswered” issues of restitution of property and prizes remaining after the treaty between the United States and France. In the margins of the document, TJ made notations in response to some of the points raised by Pichon. Next to a query from Pichon about the “meaning of the american Government on the...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, [August 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
of the convention between the United States and France indicates that he composed this letter after 31 July. He could have written it no later than early October, when the French government announced the signing of preliminary articles of peace with Great Britain. It seems likely, given...
13To Thomas Jefferson from John Dawson, 18 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...the eight-year limit on duration of the convention imposed by the U.S. Senate. He also agreed to expunge the second article, leaving the status of previous treaties between the United States and France unresolved but closing off indemnity claims. Dawson wrote private letters to Madison on 25 June and 5 Aug. in addition to his official communications to the State Department. Hinting that...
14To Alexander Hamilton from William Vans Murray, 28 August 1801 (Hamilton Papers)
...had been Minister of the Navy and Colonies in 1790. He was imprisoned during the Terror, but in 1800 he was one of three Frenchmen meeting with Murray, Davie, and Ellsworth in the negotiations for peace between the United States and France.
15To James Madison from George Stacey, 11 September 1801 (Madison Papers)
...honor to inform You that several American vessels have arrived here within a short time past in consequence of the opening of the intercourse, between the United States and France. The whole of the Convention hath not yet arrived officially to this Government, but only the fourth & Seventeenth Article’s, which have been adopted & promulgated by the Governor General & copies thereof sent...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Elam, 10 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The differences, between the United States and France, having been terminated by their late Treaty, and the Treaty subsisting between this Country and
17To Thomas Jefferson from David Lummis, 15 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
.... These things being premised, I will give it as my opinion that we may find a suitable asylum for our Slaves in the french West India islands. Let me now suppose that the existing friendship between the United States and France will warrant the negociating anything mutually interesting to the parties. Then in the first place permit me to say (which I know from my own knowledge)...
18To James Madison from Robert R. Livingston, [14] March 1802 (Madison Papers)
...and those in U.S. vessels and that the British legislature was considering a similar law. He urged Talleyrand to examine “the alterations that will be made between the relative situation of Great Britain, the United States and France by the reciprocal repeal of discriminating duties by the two former, while they continue to burthen and impede the activity of commerce between the two...
19From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 15 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...to New York. (13) Louis André Pichon to secretary of state, 28 Ventose Year 9 (19 Mch. 1801), informing him that the first consul of France has issued orders for implementation of the convention between the United States and France even though the pact has not yet received final ratification; Pichon wishes to know the intentions of the United States regarding execution of the convention; see
20To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...called a beautiful and good country and a wise and honest nation (“ce beau et bon Pays, cette sage et honnête nation”). He referred to his own enthusiasm (“Zêle”) in seeking good relations between the United States and France and deemed his task useful and necessary—”utile et même nécessaire” (
21To 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...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 28 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
: Joseph Bonaparte participated in the negotiation of the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France, and his estate at Môrtefontaine was the site of the ceremony to commemorate the pact’s signing (
23III. Gallatin’s Remarks on the Draft, 21 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
: under Article 9 of the 1788 consular convention between the United States and France and a 1792 act to implement it, a consul or vice consul could obtain the arrest of deserters from his country’s ships, and federal courts were to give “all aid and assistance” necessary. In 1794, Jean...
24To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 25 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...States rather than go to war against France; such “is not the case now—They only wait the orders of Govt. & in the twinkling on an Eye New Orleans would be ours”; if the United States and France come into conflict, it will be of critical importance to send immediately a force of 4,000 to 5,000 men to protect the Mississippi Territory “& keep in awe the Savages who are still much...
25From 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...
26Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 7 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...was to forestall the arming of American privateers, and TJ joined the other members of Washington’s cabinet in support of the declaration of neutrality although there was a division of opinion over the status of the relationship between the United States and France (
27From 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...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 7 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
: the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France (
29To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 3 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
So soon Sir, as you deem it expedient to promulge the late treaty, between the United States and France I would be much obliged by your directing an official copy of it to be furnished me, as I think it probable that the present inhabitants of Louisiana, from such an evidence of their having become the Citizens of...
30From 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.
31From 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...
32From 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...
33To James Madison from Carlos Martínez de Yrujo, 12 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
These expressions which you consider as an explicit and positive acknowledgement of the right of the United States and France to enter into the engagements which they afterwards did, do not in my opinion weaken in any manner the foundation and the force of the representations which I have had the honor to make to you against the sale...
34To Alexander Hamilton from Richard Soderstrom, 16 November 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
seized for a violation of “An Act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof” (...was collector of the port of New York, for a violation of the act to suspend commercial intercourse between the United States and France, for which seizures suits were brought, and damages and costs recovered, against the said collector; and to...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 16 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
). (2) Treaty and conventions between the United States and France, 30 Apr., for the sale of Louisiana. (3) “An Act to enable the President of the United States to take possession of the territories ceded by France to the United States, by the treaty concluded at...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Silvanus Ewer, 15 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...Aug. It does not appear that the State Department took any action on the matter. The owners’ protests were rejected by the French Council of Prizes in 1810. Not until after the signing of a convention between the United States and France in 1831 would the claims be settled. The claimants for the
37From 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
38From 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
39To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 5 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...assurance, relative to his expences”; he hopes the government will reimburse Stevens. (15) Pickering to Stevens, Washington, 16 Dec. 1803; he reviews the strained relations between the United States and France in 1798 and 1799, which led to Stevens’s mission to restore commerce with Saint-Domingue; the uncommon mission “demanded sagacity, firmness, address, a knowledge of the French language...
40Memorandum 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
41From 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...
42From 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
43To James Madison from Stephen Kingston (Abstract), 11 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
was “positively excluded, by both the letter & spirit of the 4th. & 5th. Arts.” of the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France. For the articles, see
44To James Madison from Charles Pinckney and James Monroe, 1 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
...relations between it and the United States, enclosing their correspondence with Cevallos, and suggesting that if the French still refused to change their position he should have Purviance or Erving notify the British of the differences emerging between the United States and France. The other enclosures are copies of Cevallos to Monroe and Pinckney, 24 Feb. 1805 (16 pp.; cover marked “
45To James Madison from John Armstrong, 18 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
, 2:636), stating that he had again raised these questions with the French, had been rebuffed, and had dropped the issue lest it lead to estrangement between the United States and France, and because he did not wish to give Joseph Bonaparte, a supporter of the United States, a reason to withdraw that support. He said he appended a letter showing Joseph’s view of the matter and he rejected...
46From 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,
47To James Madison from James Monroe, 16 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
...enclosing their 8 Mar. reply to him (see n. 1 above), that if Spain would not accede to the U.S. position, it would be because of French support which would disrupt relations between the United States and France; (10) Monroe to Armstrong, 17 Mar. 1805 (5 pp.), enclosing an extract from Cevallos’s 14 Mar. 1805 letter to Pinckney and Monroe (see n. 1 above), repeating many of the...
48To James Madison from Thomas Corbett and Others, 12 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
...said the French commissary at Charleston had informed him of the incident, and that he had already taken steps to obtain satisfaction for the violation of the convention between the United States and France. JM added that the president had weighed the memorialists’ observations about the protection necessary for the port and would “promote such measures as the nature of his functions,...
49To James Madison from Philip Nicklin and Robert Eaglesfield Griffith, 25 July 1805 (Madison Papers)
That matters remained in this situation until the convention and Treaty were successively made between the United States and France, in the Years ,Left blank in Tr. The writers referred to article 4 of the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France, and to the Louisiana Purchase Claims Convention of 1803 (see
50To James Madison from Samuel Vernon Jr., 7 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
had most of the cargo thrown overboard and the ship refloated. Under the 1831 treaty between the United States and France, $2,965.50 in damages was awarded (ibid., 59–60).