11From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 9 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Information has been received that the Government of West Florida has established an Agent within the territory of the United States belonging to the Creek Indians, and it is even pretended that that agent has excited those Indians to oppose the marking a boundary between their district and that of the Citizens of the United States. The latter is so inconsistent with the dispositions to...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 1 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Octob. the 29th. which I have duly laid before the President of the U.S. and in answer thereto I cannot but observe that some parts of it’s contents were truly unexpected. On what foundation it can be supposed that we have menaced the Creek nation with destruction during the present autumn, or at any other time, is entirely inconcievable....
13From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 17 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 15th. and return you my thanks for the observations you are so good as to make. The Canary islands shall be specially noted in the Report, and the duty on flour reexported to the colonies shall be stated, as I know it to be, common to the flour of all foreign nations, and not confined to ours alone. I will make enquiries as to the nature of the commerce...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 21 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several favors of the 7th. and 12th. instant were duly received and laid before the President. I have to thank you for the intelligence relative to the Creek Indians contained in one of the latter, and forwarded to you by Governor Quesada: and I must do that gentlemen the justice to say that, as far as our information goes, we have no reason to believe that any thing has been done on his...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 5 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President, the letter, which you did me the honor of writing on the 25th. of May. I had, on late, as well as former, occasions, had that of assuring you of the orders given by the President, for befriending your peace with the Indian nations, in your neighborhood: and I do, with the utmost sincerity, assure you, that the question of a contrary aspect, supposed, in your...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. of June has been duly recieved and laid before the President of the US. The matter it contains is of so serious a complexion that he chuses to treat of it with your government directly. To them therefore his sentiments thereon will be communicated, through the channel of our commissioners at Madrid, with a firm reliance on the justice and friendship of his Catholic...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State presents his Compliments to Messrs. Viar and Jaudenes, and informs them that the government of the United States having occasion to send public dispatches to their Commissioners plenipotentiary at the Court of Madrid, James Blake, a Citizen of the United States is employed as their Courier to be the Bearer of them. He is to embark on board the Ship bound from this port...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 14 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President your letters of the 11th. and 13th. instant. Your residence in the United States has given you an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the extreme freedom of the Press in those States. Considering it’s great importance to the public liberty, and the difficulty of subjecting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have laid before the President of the US. the letter of the 27th. inst. which you did me the honor to write, and the printed paper it inclosed; and I am authorised to assure you that the President will use all the powers with which he is invested to prevent any enterprize of the kind proposed in that paper to the citizens of the US. and in general to prevent their concurrence in any...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 6 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received on the 4th. instant, your favor of Octo. 23d. informing me that the French privateer the Vainqueur de la Bastille, one of those clandestinely armed in the United States, had taken and carried into North Carolina a vessel of your nation. It is hoped that the instructions heretofore given to the Governors of the several States will have effected the immediate restitution of the vessel...