11From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I laid before the President of the US. your two letters of the 11th. and 14th. instant on the subject of new advances of money, and they were immediately referred to the Secretary of the treasury within whose department subjects of this nature lie. I have now the honor of inclosing you a copy of his report thereon to the President in answer to your letters, and of adding assurances of the...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknoledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th. instant, and to thank you for the information it conveys of the present state of the French islands in the West Indies. Their condition must always be interesting to the US. with whom nature has connected them by the strong link of mutual necessities. The riot which had been raised in Philadelphia some days ago, by emigrants from St....
13From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [15–22 November 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your publication in the newspapers in the form of a letter to me of the date of Oct. 27. reached me thro’ that channel soon after it’s date. It had before been known to the Pr. in the same way. It was not necessary therefore to communicate to him the MS. copy I had the honor of receiving from you afterwards. Nor did I suppose an answer expected. You had found my name and office convenient as a...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I had the honor of writing to you on the 12th. of July I informed you that the President expected that the Jane of Dublin, the Lovely lass and Prince William Henry, British vessels taken by the armed vessel Citoyen Genet, should not depart from our ports until his ultimate determination thereon should be made known. And in a letter of the 7th. of August I gave you the further...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 2. I took the liberty of noticing to you that the commission of Consul to M. Dannery ought to have been addressed to the President of the US. He being the only channel of communication between this country and foreign nations, it is from him alone that foreign nations or their agents are to learn what is or has been the will of the nation, and whatever he communicates as...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 22 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your favor of the 2d. inst. informing me of a conspiracy among the refugees from the French colonies now at Charleston, to undertake an expedition from thence against the said colonies, I communicated the information to the Governor of S. Carolina , with a desire that he would prevent every enterprize of that nature. The other matters contained in the same letter...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 19 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to present his respects to Mr. Genet and to acknolege the receipt by the hands of a Courier, of his letter of Nov. 12. and two others of Nov. 16. which shall be immediately communicated to the President. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). The letter of Nov. 12. was actually Genet’s 14 Nov. 1793 letter about John Jay and Rufus King, which according to
18From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 15 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respectful compliments to Mr. Genet has the honor to inform him that his letter of the 3d. inst. on the subject of an advance of money, came to hand on the day the President had set out on a journey to Reading. That of yesterday on the same subject, is received this day. Both shall be laid before him on his return. RC ( AMAE : CPEU, Supplément, xx ). PrC ( DLC ). Genet’s
19From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 15 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that the district Attorney of Pennsylvania is this day instructed to take measures for finally settling the cases of the British ship William, captured by the French privateer the Citoyen Genet , and reclaimed as taken within the Jurisdiction of the United States, in which he will proceed as I had the honor of stating to you in my letter of November 10. I have...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 11 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Genet and sends him Mr. Cassan’s Exequatur, with the original commission. Mr. Genet’s letter of Oct. 15. , covering it, had been sent on by post to Virginia while Th:J. was on his way to this place, and did not get to his hands till the day before yesterday. PrC ( DLC ). Enclosures: (1) Genet’s Commission to Jean Baptiste Cassan as...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 10 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inform you that the District Attorney of Maryland is this day instructed to take measures for finally settling the case of the British brig Coningham captured by the French privateer the Sans Culottes of Marseilles, and reclaimed as taken within the jurisdiction of the United States, in which he will proceed as I had the honor of stating to you in my letter of Nov. 10. I...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 8 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now to acknowledge and answer your letter of September 13. wherein you desire that we may define the extent of the line of territorial protection on the coasts of the United States observing that Governments and jurisconsults have different views on this subject. It is certain that heretofore they have been much divided in opinion as to the distance from their sea-coasts to which they...
23From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall be late in acknowledging the receipt of your several letters written since my departure from Philadelphia, not having received any of them till the 24th: ult: and most of them only the last night. I have already laid some of them before the President and shall lay the others successively before him at as early moments as the pressure of business will permit. That of September 30. with...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you the copy of a letter from Mr. Moissonier Consul of France at Baltimore to the Governor of Maryland, announcing that Great Britain is about to commence hostilities against us, and that he purposes to collect the Naval force of your Republic in the Chesapeak and to post them as a Van-guard to derange the supposed designs of the enemy. The bare suggestion of such a...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter which I had the honor of writing you, I mentioned that information had been recieved that Mr. Duplaine, Vice-Consul of France at Boston, had been charged with an opposition to the laws of the land, of such a character, as, if true, would render it the duty of the President immediately to revoke the Exequatur whereby he was permitted to exercise the functions of Vice-Consul...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 2 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honored yesterday with your letter of the 14th. of Sep . covering the commission of the citizen Dannery to be Consul of the republick of France at Boston. I now lay the same by letter before the President to obtain his Exequatur, which will be forwarded to you with the Commission. The Exequatur is made exactly commensurate with the commission; but I apprehend that neither is so with the...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 16 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of the 10th. inst. on the subject of the arrest of Capt. Johannene and his vessel the Citoyen Genet, which you supposed to have been by order of the Executive. This I knew could not be; because the Judiciary being sovereign within their department, they would no more act under an order from the Executive or Legislature, than these would presume to give one. I was...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 12 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of the 6th. instant, and can assure you with real truth of the readiness and zeal with which the Executive will concur in preventing within the limits of the United States any preparation of hostilities against France or her Colonies, as far as this can be effected by the exertion of that portion of the public power with which they are invested by the laws. Your...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 9 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of June 25th. on the subject of the Ship William, and generally of vessels suggested to be taken within the limits of the protection of the United States by the armed vessels of your nation, I undertook to assure you it would be more agreeable to the President that such vessels should be detained under the orders of yourself or the Consuls of France than by a military guard, until...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [7 September 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The correspondence which has taken place between the Executive and yourself, and the acts which you have thought proper to do, and to countenance, in opposition to the laws of the land, have rendered it necessary in the opinion of the President to lay a faithful statement of them before the government of France, to explain to them the reasons and the necessity which have dictated our measures,...
31Enclosure II: George Clinton to Edmond Genet, 30 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
In consequence of the Request contained in your Letter of equal Date, I have issued my Requisition to the Judges & other Officers of this State to give all due Aid and Assistance (pursuant to the 9th Article of the Consular Convention between our two Nations) for the Search Seizure and Arrest of the Deserters (mentioned in your Letter) from the Ship Jupiter belonging to your Republic —It may...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 16 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the US. has received the letter which you addressed to him from New York on the 13th. instant, and I am desired to observe to you that it is not the established course for the diplomatic characters residing here to have any direct correspondence with him. The Secretary of state is the organ thro’ which their communications should pass. The President does not concieve it to be...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of June 5th. I had the honor to inform you that the President, after reconsidering at your request the case of vessels armed within our ports to commit hostilities on nations at peace with the united States, had finally determined that it could not be admitted, and desired that all those which had been so armed should depart from our ports. It being understood afterwards, that...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 4 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your letter of the 2d. inst. reclaiming the French Vessel the Republican, as being captured within the limits of the protection of the US. I have desired of the British minister that she may be detained till enquiry can be made into the fact. In the mean time I must ask the favor of you to furnish me with the depositions or other competent testimony of the fact, that the...
35From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 July 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
Having laid your letter of the 19th instant before the President for his consideration and direction, I have now the honor to give you the following answer. According to our view of the state of our account with France, the payments already made exceed the installments which have heretofore fallen due; though the want of having ascertained a rule for liquidating those which were made in...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. instant covering the information of Silvat Ducamp, Pierre Nouvel, Chouquet de Savarence, Gaston de Nogeré and G. Beustier, that being on their passage from the French West Indies to the United States, on board merchant vessels of the United States with slaves and merchandize of their property, these vessels were stopped by British armed vessels and their property taken...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 23 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor of inclosing to Mr. Genet the communications of M. de Vergennes and M. de Montmorin which he was so kind as to put into his hand. He begs pardon for having made an endorsement on them in a moment when he had forgotten that they were to be returned. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). For the enclosures, see enclosures i and ii printed at first Memorandum to...
38From Alexander Hamilton to Edmond Charles Genet, [18 July 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Hamilton presents his Compliments to the Minister of France, regrets extremely that by a neglect of the person to whom the Minister’s Note of the 16th was delivered it did not get to the hands of Mr. Hamilton till this Morning which has prevented an earlier attention to it. Mr. Hamilton is just going to attend a summons of the President. If he shall find that the object of it will not...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, [ca. 16 July 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 22. received during the absence of the President, could not be laid before him till his return, and then has been of necessity postponed to matters which pressed more in point of time. In point of importance nothing could more require attention than the doctrines laid down in the Protests of the Consuls of France at New York and Philadelphia, sanctioned by the cover of your...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to you the Memorial of Nicholas Cruger and others, citizens of the US. owners and underwriters of the schooner the York. They set forth that their vessel had been sent on a voyage to the Spanish coast in the bay of Mexico, with a cargo assorted to that market, and armed as usual in such cases; that on their return, being distressed for water and other...