106261To George Washington from Barrell & Servanté, 31 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
We have presumed to address this Circular to your Excellency as a Specimen of one of our recent Operrations We are forwarding the same to every part of Europe And as the great Object of our offices and the manifest tendency of all our Proceedings are to promote the prosperity of the United States We assure ourselves they will meet your approbation, and are therefore encouraged to Solicit the...
106262To George Washington from Felix Frestel, 31 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
Je sçais depuis long-temps que les malheurs de monsieur de la fayette et de sa famille ne vous sont ni inconnus, ni étrangers. je sçais depuis long-temps aussi, que dès le commencement de Son étrange et douloureuse captivité, son prémier vœu fut que son fils se rendît près de vous, et que l’Amérique devînt pour lui une nouvelle Patrie. d’insurmontables obstacles ont empêché depuis trois ans...
106263From George Washington to John Jay, 31 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
You will have learnt from the public Gazettes, and through other more authentic channels, that all that rested with me to do to give ratification to the treaty between this country and Great Britain is already accomplished. Mr Pinckney’s absence from the Court of London; the information, and aids it was expected he would derive from Mr Shorts presence, and acquaintance with matters at that of...
106264To George Washington from George Washington Motier Lafayette, 31 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
après bien des peines et des traverses, c’est en Amérique, c’est auprès de vous, que je viens chercher un azyle, et mon pere. j’avois aspiré depuis long-temps après cet heureux moment, qui toujours avoit fui devant moi. je commence à espérer maintenant davantage. comme c’est à votre nom, que je dois le bonheur de me trouver enfin dans ma seconde Patrie; ce sera sûrement encore à vous, que je...
106265To George Washington from John Marshall, 31 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of receiving a few minutes past your letter of the 26th inst. While the business I have undertaken to complete in Richmond, forbids me to change my situation tho for one infinitely more eligible, permit me Sir to express my sincere acknowledgements for the offer your letter contains, & the real pride & gratification I feel at the favorable opinion it indicates. I respect too...
106266To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 31 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
I congratulate you & all your Virtuous Fellow-citizens on the conclusion of the Treaty, which is equaly honourable, & advantageous to both Nations; yet Some Evil disposed Persons, in England & here, find fault with it; in their writings & in their Coffee house conversation; they Assert, that our Ministry have yielded too much to America, & they have dared to insinuate, that the Ministry were...
106267For September [1795] (Washington Papers)
1st. Wind westerly—some rain—A good deal fell in the Night. Cool. 2. Wind Northerly cloudy & springling till Noon. 3. Do. No. W. Fine, clear & pleast. all day. 4. Do. Do. Much such a day as yester. 5. Do. Do. Cloudy in the morng., clear. 6. No. Et. Showery and Cool. 7. Do. Do. Do. Do. Much rain in N. 8. So. Wt. with mists in the forenoon. 9. Do. Clear & very warm. 10. Same as yesterday.
106268From George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, September 1795 (Washington Papers)
At this place, yesterday afternoon, I received the letter herewith enclosed from Mr Morris, in answer to one I wrote him; as much of a private as an official nature. It is for your information only I send it, to avoid a lengthy detail of its contents: to give which I have not time at present. When you have read it, be so good as to return it to Gentlemen Your Obedt Hble Servant ALS...
106269To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, September 1795 (Washington Papers)
We had the pleasure of your favor by Mr Lear Covering Mr Morriss Letter of the 21t instant —finding that Mr Morris is of Opinion that we have no power to sell his property we think it highly necessary to assure him that we are impress’d with very Different sentiments and shall if Compelled by him take the advice of able Counsel on the point—We enclose a Copy of our letter to Mr Morris with his...
106270Draft of the Petition to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, [ca. September] 1795 (Madison Papers)
The following is the first of two drafts of a document that was later to appear in several newspapers as part of a petition to the General Assembly of Virginia protesting against the ratification of Jay’s treaty. That JM had ever composed such a petition, either wholly or in part, was probably unknown to most of his contemporaries, and JM himself, later in life, seems to have arranged his...