1. The letters from Sharp Delany to Hamilton of 27 Jan. 1795 and to William Rawle of 30 Dec. 1794 and the deposition of Charles Hemes have not been identified. The letter to Rawle was undoubtedly a response to Hamilton’s request that Delany communicate to Rawle information about the fitting out of privateers (see Hamilton to Rawle, 28 Dec. 1794, Hamilton Papers description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends , 17:570–71), while the letter to Hamilton was a response to Hamilton’s request that Delany send “a particular Statement in writing of all the circumstances … attending the fitting out & Sailing of Three Vessels which have been armed in this Port in whole or in part as Cruisers in the service of France” (Hamilton to Delany, 20 Jan. 1795, Hamilton Papers description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends , 18:157). Secretary of State Edmund Randolph sent copies of the two letters to British minister George Hammond on 2 Jan. 1795, as documents “respecting the privateer Gemeaux” (DNA: RG 59, Domestic Letters).

2. Hamilton was referring to “An Act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,” 5 June 1794, sections of which concerned “the furnishing, fitting out or arming of any ship or vessel with intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state to cruise or commit hostilities upon the subjects, citizens or property of another foreign prince or state with whom the United States are at peace” (1 Stat. description begins Richard Peters, ed. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 . . .. 8 vols. Boston, 1845-67. description ends 381–84).

The “affair of the Powder” evidently was a reference to the case of the Amiable Gentil, for which, see Edmund Randolph’s second letter to GW of 2 July 1794, and n.2.

Les Jumeaux, a merchant vessel, left Philadelphia in mid-December. However, before it had left the river, accusations surfaced that it had been illegally equipped, and Delaware militia attempted to stop the ship but failed. Subsequently the vessel was renamed Le Cassius and sailed as a French privateer. On its return to Philadelphia in August 1795, the owner of a vessel seized by Le Cassius instituted court proceedings that became a source of tension between the U.S. and French governments. In addition, in May 1795 Jeanne Etienne Guinet and John Baptist Le Maitre were convicted in U.S. circuit court for illegally fitting out the vessel (The Philadelphia Gazette and Universal Daily Advertiser, 17 Dec. 1794; Aurora General Advertiser [Philadelphia], 3 Jan. 1795; Timothy Pickering’s circular of 6 Jan. 1795 in Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 7 Jan. 1795, n.2; ASP description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends , Foreign Relations, 1:564–65, 586–88, 629–39; U.S. v. Guenet et al., 1795, DNA: RG 21, Criminal Case Files of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1791–1840; Dunlap and Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser [Philadelphia], 29 May 1795; Francis Wharton, State Trials of the United States during the Administrations of Washington and Adams … [Philadelphia, 1849], 93–101).