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...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the US. desirous of having done what shall be strictly conformeable to the treaties of the US. and the laws respecting the several representations received from yourself and the Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain on the subject of vessels arming or arriving within our ports, and of prizes, has determined to refer the questions arising thereon to persons learned in the...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [ca. 16 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 22. received during the absence of the President, could not be laid before him till his return, and then has been of necessity postponed to matters which pressed more in point of time. In point of importance nothing could more require attention than the doctrines laid down in the Protests of the Consuls of France at New York and Philadelphia, sanctioned by the cover of your...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor of inclosing to Mr. Genet the communications of M. de Vergennes and M. de Montmorin which he was so kind as to put into his hand. He begs pardon for having made an endorsement on them in a moment when he had forgotten that they were to be returned. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). For the enclosures, see enclosures i and ii printed at first Memorandum to...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. instant covering the information of Silvat Ducamp, Pierre Nouvel, Chouquet de Savarence, Gaston de Nogeré and G. Beustier, that being on their passage from the French West Indies to the United States, on board merchant vessels of the United States with slaves and merchandize of their property, these vessels were stopped by British armed vessels and their property taken...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 4 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your letter of the 2d. inst. reclaiming the French Vessel the Republican, as being captured within the limits of the protection of the US. I have desired of the British minister that she may be detained till enquiry can be made into the fact. In the mean time I must ask the favor of you to furnish me with the depositions or other competent testimony of the fact, that the...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of June 5th. I had the honor to inform you that the President, after reconsidering at your request the case of vessels armed within our ports to commit hostilities on nations at peace with the united States, had finally determined that it could not be admitted, and desired that all those which had been so armed should depart from our ports. It being understood afterwards, that...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 16 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the US. has received the letter which you addressed to him from New York on the 13th. instant, and I am desired to observe to you that it is not the established course for the diplomatic characters residing here to have any direct correspondence with him. The Secretary of state is the organ thro’ which their communications should pass. The President does not concieve it to be...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [7 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The correspondence which has taken place between the Executive and yourself, and the acts which you have thought proper to do, and to countenance, in opposition to the laws of the land, have rendered it necessary in the opinion of the President to lay a faithful statement of them before the government of France, to explain to them the reasons and the necessity which have dictated our measures,...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 9 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of June 25th. 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, I undertook to assure you it would be more agreeable to the President that such vessels should be detained under the orders of yourself or the Consuls of France than by a military guard, until...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of the 6th. instant, and can assure you with real truth of the readiness and zeal with which the Executive will concur in preventing within the limits of the United States any preparation of hostilities against France or her Colonies, as far as this can be effected by the exertion of that portion of the public power with which they are invested by the laws. Your...
31From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 16 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of the 10th. inst. on the subject of the arrest of Capt. Johannene and his vessel the Citoyen Genet, which you supposed to have been by order of the Executive. This I knew could not be; because the Judiciary being sovereign within their department, they would no more act under an order from the Executive or Legislature, than these would presume to give one. I was...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 2 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honored yesterday with your letter of the 14th. of Sep . covering the commission of the citizen Dannery to be Consul of the republick of France at Boston. I now lay the same by letter before the President to obtain his Exequatur, which will be forwarded to you with the Commission. The Exequatur is made exactly commensurate with the commission; but I apprehend that neither is so with the...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter which I had the honor of writing you, I mentioned that information had been recieved that Mr. Duplaine, Vice-Consul of France at Boston, had been charged with an opposition to the laws of the land, of such a character, as, if true, would render it the duty of the President immediately to revoke the Exequatur whereby he was permitted to exercise the functions of Vice-Consul...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall be late in acknowledging the receipt of your several letters written since my departure from Philadelphia, not having received any of them till the 24th: ult: and most of them only the last night. I have already laid some of them before the President and shall lay the others successively before him at as early moments as the pressure of business will permit. That of September 30. with...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the copy of a letter from Mr. Moissonier Consul of France at Baltimore to the Governor of Maryland, announcing that Great Britain is about to commence hostilities against us, and that he purposes to collect the Naval force of your Republic in the Chesapeak and to post them as a Van-guard to derange the supposed designs of the enemy. The bare suggestion of such a...
36From 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...
37From 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...
38From 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...
39From 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
40From 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...