11From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 17 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received and laid before the President, your letter of the 14th. instant, stating that certain judiciary Officers of the united States, contrary to the law of nations, and to the treaties subsisting between France and the united States, had arrested certain vessels and Cargoes taken by a French armed vessel and brought into this port, and desiring that the authority of the President...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the desire expressed in your letter of the 14th. instant, the President will give the instructions necessary for the settlement of the instalments of principal and interest still due from the US. to France. This is an act equally just and desireable for both parties: and though it had not been imagined that the materials for doing it were to be had here at this moment, yet we...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that in consequence of the general orders given by the President, a privateer fitted out by English subjects within the state of Georgia to cruize against the citizens of France has been seized by the Governor of Georgia , and such legal prosecutions are ordered as the case will justify. I beg you to be assured that the government will use the utmost vigilance to...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 18th. instant , on the subject of the bills drawn by the administration of St. Domingo in favor of certain citizens of the US. I am instructed to inform you that the funds therein mentioned have been so clearly understood on all hands to be specifically appropriated for the payment of the bills which were recognised by the former agents of France here, as to be...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the absence of the President of the united States, I have consulted with the Secretaries of the Treasury and War, on the subject of the Ship William, and generally of vessels suggested to be taken within the limits of the protection of the united States, by the armed vessels of your nation, concerning which I had the honor of a conversation with you yesterday, and we are so well assured of...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 29 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The persons who reclaimed the Ship William, as taken within the limits of the protection of the united States, having thought proper to carry their claim first into the Courts of Admiralty, there was no power in this Country which could take the vessel out of the custody of that Court, till it should decide itself whether it had jurisdiction or not of the cause; having now decided that it has...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 29 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A complaint is lodged with the Executive of the united States that the Sans Culottes, an armed privateer of France, did on the 18th. of may last capture the British brigantine Fanny within the limits of the protection of the united States, and sent the said Brig as a prize into this port, where she is now lying. I have the honor to enclose you the testimony whereon the complaint is founded....
18From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 30 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of the 25th. inst. on the subject of vessels belonging to the enemies of France which have procured arms within our ports for their defence. Those from Charleston and Philadelphia have gone off before it was known to the government, and the former indeed in the first moments of the war, and before preventive measures could be taken in so distant a...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. John Nicholson has applied to me on the subject of an apprentice of his, named George Allison, about 17. years of age, who has absconded from him and has been recieved on board the Little Democrat, where he now is. As the condition of the young man renders him in some degree the property of Mr. Nicholson, and that as well as his age leave him not free to take such a step...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to you the Memorial of Nicholas Cruger and others, citizens of the US. owners and underwriters of the schooner the York. They set forth that their vessel had been sent on a voyage to the Spanish coast in the bay of Mexico, with a cargo assorted to that market, and armed as usual in such cases; that on their return, being distressed for water and other...