1To 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...
2To 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” (
3To James Madison from Bradley & Mulford, 20 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 5:118–19; “Statement Showing the Payments of Awards of the Commissioners Appointed under the Conventions between the United States and France …,”
4To 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?
5To 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,
6To 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...
7To 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
8To 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
9III. 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...
10To 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...
11To James Madison from Elbridge Gerry, 19 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
Gerry referred to the Quasi-War between the United States and France (
12To 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
13Notes 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 (
14Notes 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 (
15From 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
16From 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...
17From 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
18From Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 7 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
: the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France (
19Memorandum 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...
20To 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
21To 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...
22Levi 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).
23To 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...
24To 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 (
25To 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...
26To 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)...
27From 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...
28From 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
29From 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...
30From 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...