1. See JJ to RK, 25 Feb., above, and the editorial note “John Jay and the Genet Affair,” above. On 3 Mar., in a letter GW addressed to JJ and himself, RK received a copy of the extract from TJ’s report to GW of 10 July 1793, stating in part that “Mr Dallas mentioned somethings which he had not said to me, and particularly his declaration that he would appeal from the President to the People.” The certification, made by Bartholomew Dandridge, GW’s secretary, stated that AH and Knox had been permitted to make the extract, that they had “subsequently published it in Dunlap & Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser No. 4581 [17 Dec. 1793],” and that it was a “correct quotation from the original.” GW stated it was given “upon the Express condition that it should not be published, nor shewn, during my Continuance in the Administration of the Government of the United States; unless very imperious circumstances should arise to call it forth: nor then, or at any time thereafter, without first obtaining my consent. The object for requiring, & the motive to granting it, being, that it might remain with them as an evidence that they were not the Authors of the report “That Mr Genet had declared he would appeal from the President to the People.” See PGW: PS description begins Dorothy Twohig et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series (19 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1987–) description ends , 15: 319–20.

2. Pinckney’s letter to ER, 25 Nov. 1793 (LS, DNA: RG 59, Despatches from United States Ministers to Great Britain, 1791–1906, Vol. 3, November 29, 1791–May 4, 1797), was received on 18 Feb. 1794. In it he reported that Grenville had asserted that Britain was released from its obligation to evacuate the eight frontier posts it had held since the peace treaty because the United States had failed for nine years to remove obstacles preventing British creditors from collecting on prewar debts. Pinckney had complained that Americans had received no warning that Britain facilitated a yearlong truce between Portugal and Algiers, and that, as a result, Portuguese cruisers no longer restrained the Algerine pirates from preying on American commerce.

Pinckney also reported that Grenville refused to revoke the Order in Council of 8 June 1793, which provided that neutral vessels carrying food supplies to French ports would be detained. Grenville further informed him about a new Order in Council of 6 Nov. that provided that ships carrying produce from French colonies or provisions to them would be seized and detained. Pinckney’s letter and ongoing debate in the House of Representatives on JM’s resolution calling for commercial retaliation against Britain led Federalist leaders to propose, among other measures, sending an envoy extraordinary to Britain to try to prevent the outbreak of war between the two nations. See PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (27 vols.; New York, 1961–87) description ends , 15: 456–57; 16: 130–34; and King, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King description begins Charles R. King, ed., The life and correspondence of Rufus King; comprising his letters, private and official, his public documents, and his speeches (6 vols.; New York: 1894–1900) description ends , 1: 515–18.

3. In a letter of 23 Nov. 1793, David Humphreys notified GW that the Dey refused either to grant him a passport or to negotiate a treaty or release American captives. GW had appointed Humphreys, then minister to Portugal, commissioner plenipotentiary to the Dey of Algiers after the death of Thomas Barclay. Humphreys succeeded in negotiating a treaty in 1795. See PGW: PS description begins Dorothy Twohig et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series (19 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1987–) description ends , 12: 356, 362–64; 14: 177–78; 184–85, 338–39, 420–22.

4. On 27 Feb., ER forwarded to GW a letter from Senator John Brown of Kentucky informing him about the plans of George Rogers Clark and Benjamin Logan, a militia general and delegate in Kentucky’s House of Representatives, to drive the Spaniards from their posts along the Mississippi and open the river to American trade. Soon thereafter, ER notified Spanish commissioner José de Jaudenes that the governor of Kentucky had been instructed to prevent the mission, which was subsequently also disavowed by Fauchet, the new French minister. See PGW: PS description begins Dorothy Twohig et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series (19 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1987–) description ends , 15: 289–93, 303–4.

5. Jean Antoine Joseph Fauchet (1761–1834) replaced Genet as minister plenipotentiary from France on 22 Feb. 1794.

6. On 6 Nov. 1794, Genet married Cornelia Clinton, daughter of Governor George Clinton, and lived thereafter in New York State. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1804. See Ammon, Genet Mission description begins Harry Ammon, The Genet Mission (New York, 1973) description ends , 172, 175.