61To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 4 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No. 25 was of the twenty sixth of March. Enclos’d you have Copies of Mr. Lebrun’s Letter to me of the twenty sixth of March, Mine to him of the twenty eighth and his to me of the twenty ninth. I also enclose under this Cover the Journal of the Debates and Decrees No. 195. 196. 197 and 198. These will give you the present State of our News up to the last Evening. You will perceive that...
62To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 26 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The last Letter which I had the Honor to write was of the thirteenth Instant, of which I enclose a Copy, as well as of No. 21. 22. and 23 of the seventh eighth and ninth Instant. I also enclose a Copy of the Letter from Dumouriez to the Convention, of the twelfth Instant, which not having been publickly read he has caus’d to be printed in Flanders, and the enclos’d is from Brussels. This...
63To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In mine No. 23 of the ninth Instant I mention’d to you that the Enemy was in Possession of Brussels and so it was then asserted by Authority but it seems that he confind himself to Tongres and Liege leaving the french Army in Possession of St. Tron. At the same Time it appears that he was employ’d in pushing forward a Column on his left to turn their right Flank and had that Movement been...
64To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 9 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Intelligence communicated in mine of yesterday is fully confirm’d. The Accounts given to the Convention are so lame and blind that one is oblig’d to peice them out like a tatter’d writing where whole Sentences are wanting. It would seem then that the Enemy, tho at what Time is yet uncertain, made an Attack on the Army which had beseigd or rather bombarded Maestrecht and which was then at...
65To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 8 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In reading over my Letter of Yesterday I find that I omitted to mention the War with Spain . Truth is that it was a Matter so much of Course and of so little Importance that it escap’d my Recollection. Our Commissioners will doubtless turn it to Account. Last Evening I was inform’d that the french Army in Flanders has been defeated but as this is not an official Account I meerly mention it as...
66To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 7 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you have Copies of what I had the Honor to write on the twenty fifth of January and thirteenth of February also the Copy of a Letter of the twelfth of February from Mr. Pinkney with my Answer of the eighteenth. I send these last to the End that due Attention may be paid to such Vessels as may be furnished with his Passports and which may perhaps prove to be british Bottoms. I am so...
67To Alexander Hamilton from Gouverneur Morris, 16 February 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
My last was of the sixteenth of January of which I now enclose a Copy. It has so happened that a very great Proportion of the french Officers who served in America have been either opposed to the Revolution at an early Day, or felt themselves oblig’d at a later Period to abandon it. Some of them are now in a State of Banishment and their Property confiscated. Among these last there are a few...
68To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 14 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
private My dear Sir Paris 14 Feby 1793 I have receivd yours of the twentieth of October which was very long on its Way. You will find that Events have blackened more and more in this Country. Her present Prospects are dreadful. It is not so much perhaps the external Force, great as that may be, for there are always Means of Defence in so vast a Nation. The exhausted State of Resources might...
69To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last No: 18 was of the 25th. of January. Since it was written I have had every Reason to beleive that the Execution of Louis XVI has produced on foreign Nations the Effect which I had imagin’d. The War with England exists and it is now proper perhaps to consider it’s Consequences to which Effect we must examine the Objects likely to be pursued by England for in this Country notwithstanding...
70To Thomas Jefferson from Gouverneur Morris, 13 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknowlege yours of the seventh of last November which I cannot do without expressing my Concern at a Resolution which will deprive the United States of an able and faithful Servant. Since you declare your determination to be unalterable it would be idle to offer Reasons to dissuade you besides which it seems probable that e’er this can arrive you will have acted. But were it otherwise...