151To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday Mr Freire presented to me his credentials from the Queen of Portugal, as her minister resident. He is styled the Chevalier Cyprian Ribeiro Freire. They are in substance correct; tho’ from an ignorance of our constitution, he is said to be sent to reside near the Congress . Being satisfied, that he would be received, I interchanged the usual civility of language. He expressed a desire...
152To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 14 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The exterior and manners of Mr Freire, if it were possible to draw any conclusion at first sight, would indicate him, to wish to impress the belief, that he is in no habits of intimacy with either the English or Spanish diplomatic characters here: that he is averse to every entanglement of etiquette: that he is sent to render himself agreeable: He speaks English well, tho’ he means to...
153To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 13 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
In concurrence with general Knox, I have the honor of submitting to you the notes for the different communications to congress. My object has been, merely to give the summary idea, without contemplating precise language in any respect. As soon as you shall have signified your sense upon the matter, the form and dress can be easily thrown over it. The William Penn and Caroline have arrived from...
154To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 13 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
Mr Freire, the Portuguese Minister, is arrived; and he is to call upon me to-day at 2 o’clock. Mrs Washington having written this morning will have told you, that she and the family are in good health. There is great reason to fear, that the French are making rapid strides towards Amsterdam; notwithstanding the interruption, which Breda and Maestricht are likely to give them. I am writing to...
155To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
I communicated to Mrs Washington the route, which you marked out in your favor of the 9th current. All under your roof were in their usual good health this morning; and she desired me to say to you, that she will write by the express of Monday. Mr Fauchet certainly believes the destruction of Robespierre; and from circumstances, independent of those, which have been published, he had foreseen...
156To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The express of yesterday was suspended; from the probability, that by going off to-day he might arrive at Williamsport almost as soon as you should reach it. General Knox has promised me his memoranda to-morrow, when they shall be incorporated in mine, and the various subjects shall be digested in the order, which appears to me best. I do not understand, that you wish me to clothe in language...
157To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 9 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
By the Atlantic, which arrived from Liverpool last evening, papers have been received from London, as low down as the 16th of August. Two of them the Sun , and the Star , which are supposed to be rivals, accord nearly in the same story of Robespierre’s fall. While I lament, that this, which is my only fear for the French Revolution, seems to be growing rapidly, and that the want of confidence...
158To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 8 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
I was honored by your private letter of the 6th instant, about half an hour ago; and immediately delivered to Mrs Washington the one, addressed to her. Mr Butler and Mr Brown, of the Senate, called to learn the intelligence from Europe. I considered their title to read the dispatches, as being no better, than that of other men; and I told them verbally only what I have told others. With the...
159To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 8 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge Colonel Hamilton’s letter of the 6. current written by your direction. Judge Peters and Mr Rawle intend to proceed tomorrow. They will carry with them copies of all the subscriptions. Some of the names indeed are so badly written; that mistakes are inevitable. If therefore any individuals, whose names do not appear, or may be inaccurately transcribed, should...
160To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 7 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph, with affectionate wishes for the President’s health, has the honor of informing him, that Mrs Washington and the family were well this morning: that altho’ it is suspected by some, that Mrs Lenox, who now lies very ill in the house adjoining E.R.’s office, labours under the yellow fever; yet there does not seem to be any grounds for the apprehension. At least his clerks and...
161To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 7 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The express has been waiting, in expectation of the return of the messenger sent from hence on friday last and from the probability, that your dispatches might require an immediate Answer. He will be detained, however, until a late hour in the day, in order that Mr Jay’s communications may be copied, and forwarded to you. They grow extremely interesting, and assume a considerable degree of...
162To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Portuguese Minister has announced himself; excusing the past omission by the hourly expectation of departing from New-York for this city, and assigning for the reason of his not coming on, that he is deterred by the reports of the yellow fever, being in full havoc here. He has been answered with the civility, usual on such occasions. Mr Rawle and Mr Peters will leave town on Wednesday or...
163To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
E: Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that Mr Seagrove just now has learned from good authority, that General Clarke has abandoned his expedition in Georgia; and, under the influence of General Gunn and Mr Carnes, has come in, with all his followers. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The...
164To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The letter of Colo. Nicholas, which I mentioned in mine of the day before yesterday is so lengthy that I must reserve it for you until your return; as I am confident, that the inclosing of such an almost illegible scrawl would answer little purpose, and I might not be justified in having a copy taken even by one of the clerks. However, the substance is, an answer to my various observations;...
165To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 4 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
No public dispatches, or public events have appeared, since I had the honor of writing to you yesterday. Mr Brown, the senator of Kentucky, who has been in town about three days, called upon me yesterday. He was not explicit, whether he had received letters from the western army; but I am convinced from the manner of his sounding me to discover, if I was prepared to listen with indulgence to...
166To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2–3 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
The line of Expresses, which I had the honor of mentioning to you before your departure, will begin to move to-morrow at 10 oClock in the morning as far as Carlisle. They will start from hence every day except Sundays, and even on Sundays, if it should be necessary. The same routine will be observed from Carlisle to this City; and the whole will continue, until you shall be pleased to order...
167To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 3 October 1794 (Washington Papers)
You know well, how much success turns the popular tide. So it has happened with General Wayne. Many, whom I have heard speaking in derogatory terms of his talents, now change their tone and say; that they were always certain, that the President would never appoint an incompetent man to the command of the army. There is one circumstance, however, which appears to me to demand his attention. His...
168To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 30 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The importance, and air of probability, which the inclosed narrative of General Wayne’s affair of the 20th of August bears, appearing to deserve an express; I have the honor of transmitting it to you; and of being, Sir, with the highest respect and attachment yr mo. ob. serv. ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State; LB , DNA...
169To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 29 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of submitting to the President the draft of a letter to the commissioners. It is expected, that their report will be printed in a couple of days. In a conversation, which E.R. has just had with Mr Jaudenes, he observed, that Spain must ultimately coalesce with France; and that he had no communication of business with Mr Hammond, nor Mr Hammond with him. Duplicates of...
170To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 24 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] September 24, 1794 . “The Secretary of State, not having time to have the inclosed from Mr. Jaudenes translated, presents it to the Secretary of Treasury; as it relates to a privateer fitted out in the neighborhood under French colours, and being just ready to sail.” LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 7, June 27–November 30, 1794, National Archives....
171To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 23 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of informing the President, that the word, which he has observed to be omitted, was not omitted designedly, but in the hurry of copying; and would have struck E.R. upon a reperusal of the draft. It is certainly a word, which is very direct, and as probably as direct as can be with propriety, under the circumstances, to which the President has alluded. In this view, a...
172To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor of inclosing to you the opinion of the secretary of the treasury, upon the request of Mr Jaudenes for a military guard. I wait your pleasure; and take the liberty of mentioning, that it will be convenient to know your decision, in time for the mail of this morning. The executive magistrates of Europe would in all probability, (since it would cost so little,) feel no great...
173To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 9 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the United States instructs me to request, that you will cause an inquiry to be immediately made, through some of the Officers of the Customs, into the damage sustained by the detention of the Brig William of Glasgow, a prize to a French Cruiser, while She was detained by Government for examination, whether she was not captured within the protection of our coast. It may...
174To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [6 September 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State presents his Compliments to the Secretary of the Treasury and incloses to him by direction of the President sundry letters and other papers received from Mr. Seagrove respecting the Creek nation and the Governor of Georgia. The President is anxious that the whole of this business should be reviewed and brought into one summary. For this purpose he thinks that Mr. Stagg...
175To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
The secretary of state has the honor of informing the President of the United States, that the recommendation of Judge Peters in favor of a pardon for Thomas Norton corresponds with the opinion of Mr Rawle, the district-attorney; that his subject is to be considered now , howsoever it might have been represented at first, as no more than larceny; that his long imprisonment is of itself a...
176To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 6 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of inclosing to the President Mr. G. Morris’s private letter to him, of March 12 1794. E.R. forgot to inform the President, that the copy of the letter, which was supposed to have got out of the office thro’ perfidy, appears to have most probably passed some how or other from the office of the govr of New-York. For Mr Hammond sent a copy of it to Govr Clinton. AL ,...
177To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 5 September 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, September 5, 1794. “The Secretary of State has the honor of informing the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to his letter of the 3d. instant, that Mr. Higginson’s papers have been withheld from the Department of State, at the desire of Mr. Ralston, who is supposed to be one of the health Committee. As soon as they are delivered, whatsoever appears respecting payments to Mr....
178Edmund Randolph to Thomas Mifflin, 30 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I am directed by the President to acknowlege the Receipt on the 17th. of Your Excellency’s letter dated the 12th instant. The President feels with you the force of the motives which render undesireable an extension of correspondence on the subject in question. But the case being truly one of great importance and delicacy, these motives must yield, in a degree, to the propriety and utility of...
179To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 28 August 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, August 28, 1794. “… it is the wish of the President of the United States, that General Miller should be sent into the counties of Pennsylvania, west of the Susquehannah, to ascertain their real temper, in case they should be called upon to quell the insurrection in the West. This idea arose from the suggestion in Mr. Bradford’s private letter, and is certainly important. The...
180To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 28 August 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding you have fenced out from the purlieus of Monticello every thing, which assumes a political Shape, you must permit me to bring before you a subject, once extremely near to your heart, often the employement of your pen, and always a deep interest to the United States. The delays, and evasions which you know to have been practised towards our Commissioners at Madrid , have at...