1From George Washington to James Lloyd, 15 April 1798 (Washington Papers)
For your kindness in forwarding a copy of the dispatches from our Envoys in France to the Government here, I pray you to accept my best thanks. What a scene of corruption and profligacy has these Communications disclosed in the Directors of a People with whom the United States have endeavoured to Treat upon fair, just & honorable ground! If they should be attended with the effect of “Speedily...
2From George Washington to James Lloyd, 13 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
I have received, and thank you, for your favour of the 6th instant and its enclosure. It is very consoling to perceive such an expression of the spirited feelings of the Yeomanry, and other description of the people of this Country as appears in the Addresses, going from all quarters, to the President of the United States, and to Congress; and it is peculiarly pleasing to find that this Spirit...
3From George Washington to James Lloyd, 25 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 25th Instant has been duly received, and I feel much obliged by your polite attentions to me. I rejoiced to hear of General Marshall’s arrival, & wish sincerely that he had been accompanied by his Colleagues, for I believe no Country will afford them better protection than their own. The stay of one of them, has a misterious appearance after having jointly declared, “that no...
4From George Washington to James Lloyd, 27 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
Accept my thanks for your favour of the 21st Instant, and its enclosures. When the whole correspondence between our Envoys and the French Minister of Foreign Relations & his agents is brought into one view, and laid before the Public, it will be extremely interesting; and must, I conceive, carry conviction to every mind that is open to it, of what the French now are, and have been aiming at,...
5From George Washington to James Lloyd, 11 February 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 28th Ulto enclosing Mr Gerry’s correspondence with M. Talleyrand, came safe; but not so soon after its date as might have been expected; or an earlier acknowledgment thereof would have been returned. For your kind, and polite attention to me in sending me this curious interchange, with the Secretary of State’s Report thereon, I pray you to accept my best thanks. It is not...