2611To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Greenleaf, 5 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to apologize for not replying earlier to yours of the 19th. ultimo-the reason of this delay was, the uncertainty whether a file for ’89 and ’90 of the N. Y. Journal, &c. could be completed or not. The file is now complete with the exceptions of 4 papers , viz. Jany: 15-Augt. 20-Dec. 17 of 1789-and Oct. 5, 1790. They are now half binding agreably to your Order, and I have directed a...
2612To Thomas Jefferson from Rodolph Vall-Travers, 5 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Rotterdam, 5 May 1793 . In hopes that his exertions on behalf of the United States, described in his letters of last year and this to the President and TJ, have been well received, he calls a new emergency to the administration’s attention. The Netherlands, which has hitherto favored North America with loans and the fruits of its West Indian colonies and plantations, will now suspend though...
2613To Thomas Jefferson from F. P. Van Berckel, 6 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Ayant Compris par Ce qué Vous m’avez fait l’honneur de me dire Ce matin, qué Vous ne Consideriez pas ma Lettre du 28e. dernier, Comme une notification formelle d’une Guerre declarée entre la France et les Provinces Unies; je Crois de mon devoir de Vous informer Sans delai qué J’ai recu d’une Maniere officielle la Confirmation de Ce qui m’avoit été Communiqué par le Ministre de Sa Majesté...
2614To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In addition to the short letter of last week for Boston, New-York, Baltimore and Alexandria; I have now the honor to inclose you two copies of my instructions to the Collectors (to accompany the Sea letters) 200 of which have been this day delivered to me from the Press. All the sea letters which have been received are disposed of, in consequence of applications, as fast as they came to my...
2615To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 7 May 1793 . A fortnight ago he received TJ’s letter of 2 Feb. and a fortnight before that the plans of our beautiful Federal City, eight of which he sent to Amsterdam to be displayed in the counting houses of great merchants friendly to us and in patriotic clubs. He is preparing ten others for Dort, Rotterdam, Leyden, and Haarlem and has reserved five for North Holland and Utrecht...
2616To Thomas Jefferson from Enoch Edwards, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I will be exceedingly obliged if you will excuse my asking one Letter from you to Some Gentleman in France, whether it be to Mr. Morris our Minister there, or some private Gentleman—I submit that to you. Doctor Rush at the Time He asked the one you have been so kind as to write , did not know that I certainly meant to visit France. The Agriculture of this Country as well as England I intend to...
2617To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Fay, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favours of the 18th. and 2lst. March, I had the honor to receive, and altho I should have been happy to have had you joined our Company, yet the reasons you offer against it are highly satisfactory and such as I sincerely wish Governed all our public Servants. I send two of the last Quebec papers, and shall send more as they come forward. If it will not give you too much trouble I should...
2618To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 7 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
En contestaction al Oficio que pasàmos à la Superioridad, incluiendo Copia del que V.S. nos escriviò, quexandose de que el Govierno de la Luisiana huviese embiado un Comisario, ô Agente a la Nacion Creek, nos Manda S. M. (despues de aprovar en un todo la Respuesta que dìmos à V.S.) pasar à manos de V.S. (como lo hacemos ahora) Copia del Tratado concluido entre España, y la Nacion Creek el Año...
2619Memorial from George Hammond, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, requests permission to recall to the attention of the Secretary of State the memorial which was presented to him on the 2nd. curt., relative to the capture of the British Ship Grange by the French frigate the Embuscade. The subject of that memorial being merely a question of fact, the Undersigned...
2620Memorial from George Hammond, with Jefferson’s Notes, 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Undersigned, his Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, has the honor of representing to the Secretary of State that he has received information from various respectable quarters that a considerable quantity of arms and military accoutrements, which an agent of the French government has collected and purchased in this country, is now preparing to be...