2601To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 25 May 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
We received with due respect your letter of the 21st. inst. and have this new assurance of the sincere desire of the President of the US. to preserve the peace and harmony subsisting between Spain and the US. For the same reason which prevented your making any reflections on the treaties with the Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, we avoid at present transmitting you a voluminous relation, well...
2602To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Anderson, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your Esteemed favor of the 19th Current, and return you my Sincere thanks for your friendly disposition to Serve me, which encourages me to make a further request, that is to give me your Opinion from time to time of the Neutrality of the United States of America, in the present European War, As I have lately Ventured to lay out a large Sum of Money in two American Ships, and...
2603To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The 14th. article of our treaty with France has shut out all general reasoning from the law of nations, on the memorial of Benjamin Holland and Peter Mackie. The flour and meal were actually shipped after the declaration of war, made by France on the 1st. of february 1793. If the inquiry was to depend on their knowledge of the declaration, their relief would be very doubtful at least. But as...
2604From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1793 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter with the unsealed one for Monroe & have forwarded the latter. Your subsequent one, which I calculate to have been written on the 12th. inst: came to hand two days ago. I feel for your situation but you must bear it. Every consideration private as well as public require a further sacrifice of your longings for the repose of Monticello. You must not make your final exit...
2605To Thomas Jefferson from Edmond Charles Genet, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mon prédecesseur m’a remis la lettre que vous lui aves ecritte le 15 de ce mois en lui communiquant differens mémoires de l’envoyé du roi d’ angleterre et les décisions que le Gouvernement americain s’est empressé de prendre d’après les plaintes de ce Ministre. Le premier de ses griefs que vous rapportes dans votre lettre, Monsieur, porte sur un fait faux; Je n’ai aucune connaissance des...
2606Memorial from Edmond Charles Genet, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Soussigné Ministre plenipotentiaire de la Republique Française a l’honneur d’informer Monsieur le Secretaire d’etat Jefferson que le Citoyen Gedeon Henfield né à Salem officier à bord du Corsaire de la République Française le Citoyen Genet a été arreté et mis en prison en vertu, dit-on, d’un mandat de l’alderman Baker de cette ville qui l’accuse d’avoir enfreint, en s’embarquant à bord du...
2607To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter with the unsealed one for Monroe and have forwarded the latter. Your subsequent one , which I calculate to have been written on the 12th. inst: came to hand two days ago. I feel for your situation but you must bear it. Every consideration private as well as public require a further sacrifice of your longings for the repose of Monticello. You must not make your final...
2608To Thomas Jefferson from Phineas Miller, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am desired by Mrs. Greene, whose sensibility to the late unhappy accident in her family prevents her writing herself, to solicit the favor of your particular attention to the application of Mr. Whitney . He has resided in our family during the last winter—and amidst all the inconveniences which a situation in the country without tools and without workmen, could throw in his way, has invented...
2609Memorandum from Edmund Randolph, [ca. 28–30 May 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Minutes of reasons, which operated with E. R. in advising the expulsion of the Genet privateer. 1. That it is the prerogative of every nation to prohibit acts of sovereignty to be done within its limits by another nation, except where treaties otherwise provide, or those acts relate to the privileges of ministers. 2. That it is the peculiar prerogative of every neutral nation, to prohibit such...
2610To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 28 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My last informed you that I had just received yours of the fifth, as I returned from a circuit of professional duties. It communicated to you likewise what I had to communicate respecting your own commissions in that line. The European war becomes daily as it progresses more interesting to us. I was happy to find Mr. Genet whom I passed on the road between Fredbg. and Richmd. had made a most...