1From 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...
2Notes 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.,
The Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed in 1778, had stipulated that neither country should make peace without the concurrence of the other. During the peace negotiations Congress repeatedly had reminded the American commissioners of this treaty obligation to France and warned them against...
4Notes 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 Lee most probably meant that Congress should have rescinded the instructions of 15 June 1781 limiting the...
5Notes 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
6Notes 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 (
7From 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...
8Instructions 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...
9Notes 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...
10Notes 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