DS (in Edmund Randolph’s writing), DLC:GW.

The British brigs Conyngham and Pilgrim were captured in October 1793 by the French privateer Sans Culottes de Marseilles and brought into the port of Baltimore (Counter Case description begins The Counter Case of Great Britain as Laid before the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened at Geneva under the Provisions of the Treaty between the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, Concluded at Washington, May 8, 1871. H. Exec. Doc. 324, 42d Cong., 2d sess., 1872. description ends , 612–13). The British claimed that both vessels had been captured within three miles of the U.S. coastline and thus were not subject to condemnation and sale according to the policy set by the United States. For the establishment of this policy, see Record of Cabinet Opinions, 22 Nov. 1793; for its application to these two cases, see Thomas Sim Lee to GW, 18 Oct. 1793, and notes 1 and 3 to that document; Thomas Jefferson to GW, 16 Nov. 1793, and notes 1, 2, and 9 to that document; and Alexander Campbell to Edmund Randolph, 6 Feb. 1794 (DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; see also Hamilton Papers description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends , 16:202–3).