11From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [15–22 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your publication in the newspapers in the form of a letter to me of the date of Oct. 27. reached me thro’ that channel soon after it’s date. It had before been known to the Pr. in the same way. It was not necessary therefore to communicate to him the MS. copy I had the honor of receiving from you afterwards. Nor did I suppose an answer expected. You had found my name and office convenient as a...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I had the honor of writing to you on the 12th. of July I informed you that the President expected that the Jane of Dublin, the Lovely lass and Prince William Henry, British vessels taken by the armed vessel Citoyen Genet, should not depart from our ports until his ultimate determination thereon should be made known. And in a letter of the 7th. of August I gave you the further...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 2. I took the liberty of noticing to you that the commission of Consul to M. Dannery ought to have been addressed to the President of the US. He being the only channel of communication between this country and foreign nations, it is from him alone that foreign nations or their agents are to learn what is or has been the will of the nation, and whatever he communicates as...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your favor of the 2d. inst. informing me of a conspiracy among the refugees from the French colonies now at Charleston, to undertake an expedition from thence against the said colonies, I communicated the information to the Governor of S. Carolina , with a desire that he would prevent every enterprize of that nature. The other matters contained in the same letter...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present his respects to Mr. Genet and to acknolege the receipt by the hands of a Courier, of his letter of Nov. 12. and two others of Nov. 16. which shall be immediately communicated to the President. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). The letter of Nov. 12. was actually Genet’s 14 Nov. 1793 letter about John Jay and Rufus King, which according to
16From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 15 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respectful compliments to Mr. Genet has the honor to inform him that his letter of the 3d. inst. on the subject of an advance of money, came to hand on the day the President had set out on a journey to Reading. That of yesterday on the same subject, is received this day. Both shall be laid before him on his return. RC ( AMAE : CPEU, Supplément, xx ). PrC ( DLC ). Genet’s
17From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 15 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that the district Attorney of Pennsylvania is this day instructed to take measures for finally settling the cases of the British ship William, captured by the French privateer the Citoyen Genet , and reclaimed as taken within the Jurisdiction of the United States, in which he will proceed as I had the honor of stating to you in my letter of November 10. I have...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 11 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Genet and sends him Mr. Cassan’s Exequatur, with the original commission. Mr. Genet’s letter of Oct. 15. , covering it, had been sent on by post to Virginia while Th:J. was on his way to this place, and did not get to his hands till the day before yesterday. PrC ( DLC ). Enclosures: (1) Genet’s Commission to Jean Baptiste Cassan as...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 10 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inform you that the District Attorney of Maryland is this day instructed to take measures for finally settling the case of the British brig Coningham captured by the French privateer the Sans Culottes of Marseilles, and reclaimed as taken within the jurisdiction of the United States, in which he will proceed as I had the honor of stating to you in my letter of Nov. 10. I...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 8 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now to acknowledge and answer your letter of September 13. wherein you desire that we may define the extent of the line of territorial protection on the coasts of the United States observing that Governments and jurisconsults have different views on this subject. It is certain that heretofore they have been much divided in opinion as to the distance from their sea-coasts to which they...