21The Defence No. XXXVIII, [9 January 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed at Paris on February 6, 1778. Articles 1 and 7 of this treaty read: “Art. 1. If War should break out betwan france and Great Britain, during the continuence of the present War betwan the......18) and Article 21 (originally 23) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France,...
22To Alexander Hamilton from Gouverneur Morris, 4 March 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France of February 6, 1778, in which the United States guaranteed French possessions in America (
23To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, 8 May 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
Washington is referring to Article 23 (originally 25) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce concluded between the United States and France on February 6, 1778 (This guarantee was included in Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, which was signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (
24From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 30 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
This is presumably a reference to relations between the United States and France.
25To Alexander Hamilton from Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais, [October 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
received eight hundred thousand francs and agreed to abandon any further claims. For the text of the Convention between the United States and France, July 4, 1831, see
26From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [3 November 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
H is referring to Article 22 (originally 24) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778, which reads: “It shall not be lawful for any foreign Privateers, not belonging to Subjects of the most Christian King nor Citizens of the said United States, who have Commissions from any other...
27The Answer, [8 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
suspends all the commercial relations between the United States and France, by preventing the supplies looked for by France from this country.Commerce between the United States and France of February 6, 1778, see
28To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 26 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed on February 6, 1778. See
29From Alexander Hamilton to Theodore Sedgwick, [26 February 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France signed at Paris on February 6, 1778. For information on the articles of the treaty which H wished to have modified, see
30From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, [9–14 May 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
not warranted by the usage of nations nor by the stipulations existing between the United States and France. It is true, that it is not so warranted, nor yet by any law of the Land: that, therefore, it is a mere nullity, can be respected in no court, make no part in the title...