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...