31From 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...
32From 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
33From 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.
34From 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...
35From 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,
36To 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...
37Memorandum 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
38From 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
39To 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 “
40To 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...
41To 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.
42To 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.
43To 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” (
44To 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...
45To James Madison from Robert Power, 19 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...me with the brig, it would not have been much worse.” He also said that Francis Sargent had died in the marine hospital at Rochefort on 9 Feb. 1806. Under the terms of the 1831 treaty between the United States and France, $17,049 was awarded in compensation for the
46To 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).
47To 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 (
48To 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...
49To 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...
50To 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,...
51To 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...
52To 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).
53To 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...