1To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 25 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 25 May 1793 . We receive neither letters nor papers from France and hear from there and elsewhere only what they wish us to know or delude us about. In Germany, as in Poland, the big despots are overwhelming the little ones and seizing peoples like flocks of sheep. All around him, commerce overthrown, treasury exhausted, imminent vexations to refill it, hypocrisy on the throne and...
2To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 7 May 1793 . A fortnight ago he received TJ’s letter of 2 Feb. and a fortnight before that the plans of our beautiful Federal City, eight of which he sent to Amsterdam to be displayed in the counting houses of great merchants friendly to us and in patriotic clubs. He is preparing ten others for Dort, Rotterdam, Leyden, and Haarlem and has reserved five for North Holland and Utrecht...
3To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 1 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 1 May 1793 . Providence alone can foresee the final end of this unprecedented and almost general war. Correspondence with France is again interrupted, and he and many other good people in this country suffer because France pays neither incomes nor pensions abroad. People in this province suffer further from the forced imposition, which they must swear is not forced, of what is...
4To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 5 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 5 Apr. 1793 . The lifting of the embargo in the Dutch ports enables him to resume his dispatches. He encloses a statement of his disbursements for the last half of 1792, two copies of which he furnished to the bankers at Amsterdam when he drew on them for the sums of ƒ301.16 and ƒ204.15 mentioned in it. The poorly conceived French campaign strategy of maintaining separate corps...
5To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 3 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 3 Feb. 1793 . Since his last of 29 Jan. each day becomes more critical for France on one side and the dominant parties here and in London on the other. He is unable to give an account of some propositions with which Maulde, the former French minister plenipotentiary who had been recalled to Paris, is said to have returned here, and to which it is said the Grand Pensionary has...
6To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 29 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 29 Jan. 1793 . He regards the unfortunate fate of the last of the kings of France as a human tragedy but a political necessity, there being no middle ground between his ruin and the destruction of civil liberties. The discourse by Paine in the enclosed Journal des Débats shows that his ideas on natural law are infinitely superior to his politics. Louis would have given no cause for...
7To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 9 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 9 Jan. 1793 . The lessons offered by the quarrelsome Europeans can make the good American people thankful for the wisest and most virtuous government in the world and the constitutions which assure it. Behold the king of England, who seems determined to add to the disorder by joining with his hereditary Continental cousins and risks drowning with them like Pharoah, thus atoning for...
8To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 13 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 13 Nov. 1792. For several months we have seen that a king without a people is nothing. We shall see what a people without a king can be. Having driven the enemy from France and invaded Germany, the French are welcomed as liberators in the Low Countries. 15–20 Nov. All around him precautions are being taken, especially against those within the country, who are dreaded as much as...
9To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 20 September 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 20 Sep. 1792. Since the receipt of TJ’s letter of 3 June on 26 July, he has tried to write to him hundreds of times, but ill health and the horrible state of affairs in Europe prevented him. He cannot foresee the results and needs all his steadfastness to bear up against the anxiety he feels for the cause of humanity and for himself in the face of so many evils. He values the...
10To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 8 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 8 June 1792. Having deferred sending these packets until now, he forwards them without being able to add his opinions on the affairs of Europe. The French, who ought to do everything, do nothing; the Prussians march and do not arrive; the English and Dutch fortunately remain observers. Providence seems to control events that disturb courts and their diplomacy, such as the war Russia...