82611From George Washington to Frederick William II of Prussia, 15 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
However unusual it may be for your Majesty to receive an address from a person, who, at the very moment of making it, disclaims the exercise of any public function, and acts as a private individual; yet it is believed from your illustrious character, that the Motives, which lead me to the Measure, will serve as an ample apology. I cannot longer resist the impulse of friendship, to lay before...
82612To George Washington from James Hendricks, 15 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
By the death of my worthy friend that good man Majr Forsyth the office of Marshal for this State has become Vacant I have presum’d to offer myself to your Excellency for the Vacancy, I need not say any thing of my abilities to Exercise the duty incident thereto, shall only observe that being cast on this climate and not finding the discription of the country answer’d to my wishes, the...
82613To George Washington from Charles Simms, 15 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Charles Simms, 15 Jan. 1794. GW wrote Simms on 28 Jan. , acknowledging receipt of “Your letter of the 15th instant.”
82614From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 15 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I lay before you, as being connected with the correspondence, already in your possession, between the Secretary of State and the Minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic, the copy of a Letter from that Minister of the 25th of December 1793; and a copy of the proceedings of the Legislature of the State of South Carolina. LS , DNA : RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of...
82615Commercial Discrimination, [15 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
Ames objected to a motion to go into Committee of the Whole, since papers from the secretary of state, relating to negotiations with Britain for a commercial treaty, had not yet been printed for the House. Mr. Madison said that it was somewhat singular, that an objection should be made to the going into a committee for the want of these papers. This want ought to have been stated upon Monday....
82616From James Madison to John Dawson, 15 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 January 1794. Acknowledged in Dawson to JM, 23 Jan. 1794 . Mentions two causes of opposition to JM’s resolutions on commercial discrimination.
82617To Thomas Jefferson from Hauterive, 15 January 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu, Monsieur, une lettre datée du 7. Septembre et Signée de vous; J’ai vu depuis, et après votre résignation du ministere, dans les papiers publics une déclaration qu’on vous attribüe sur les motifs qui vous ont Fait vous prêter aux différens actes de votre ministere qui étoient en opposition avec vos opinions. Des Considérations importantes et personelles me font vous demander,...
82618John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
I had Yesterday the Pleasure of yours of January 5. I will Send, to M r Adams a Check upon the Branch Bank for two hundred Dollars as soon as I can get Thomas to transact the Business for me. I am glad to find that you have had Applications for the Farms— I wish you to hear them all and enquire their Characters and Circumstances We are all of Us here, very much concerned for Cheesman. he has...
82619Cabinet Meeting. Opinion on Writing to the King of Prussia Concerning the Marquis de Lafayette, [14 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of departments at the President’s, on the fourteenth day of January 1794. It was propounded by the President, whether in consideration of the eminent services of M. de la Fayette, to the U. S. and his present sufferings, it be not adviseable for the President, in a private , and unofficial character, to address to the King of Prussia a letter, requesting his release...
82620From Alexander Hamilton to Joshua Clayton, 14 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 14, 1794. The dealer’s catalogue description of this letter reads as follows: “Relative to public accounts and the sums paid over to the several states.” Letter not found. ] LS , sold at American Art Association, December 7, 1921, Lot 310. Clayton was governor of Delaware.
82621To Alexander Hamilton from William Ellery, 14 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Newport, Rhode Island ] January 14, 1794 . “I am much obliged by the assurances that the Object of my letter of the 26th. of Novr. will be duly attended to, communicated in your letter of the 28th. of the last month. I have transmitted to the Cashier of the Provid. bank seven thousand dolls, and expect to receive duplicate Rects therefor by the next Post.…” LC , Newport Historical Society,...
82622To Alexander Hamilton from Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard, 14 January … (Hamilton Papers)
We had the pleasure to address you the 27th. ulto. and are since favored with your esteemed of 26th. October forwarded to us from Glasgow by Tobias Lear Esqr. who purposes to visit this City in March next, when you may depend upon his experiencing from us, those attentions, Civilities, and services, We shall at all times be happy in shewing to your recommendations. You have been regularly...
82623Enclosure: Benjamin Lincoln to Thomas MacDonough, 14 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I am authorised, in conjunction with you, to appoint persons to establish the value of such Vessels & Cargoes the property of the subjects of Great Britain as have been captured by French privateers armed and equipped in the ports of the United States between 5th of June and the seventh of august last and which have been restored. At present however my attention is called to three only the...
82624Cabinet Opinion on a Letter to the King of Prussia, 14 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the heads of departments at the President’s, on the fourteenth day of January 1794. It was propounded by the President, whether in consideration of the eminent services of M. de la Fayette, to the U.S. and his present sufferings, it be not adviseable for the President, in a private, and unofficial character, to address to the King of Prussia a letter, requesting his release on...
82625To George Washington from William Pearce, 14 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Pearce, 14 Jan. 1794. In a letter to Pearce of 19 Jan. , GW acknowledged receipt of “Your letter of the 14th instt.”
82626To George Washington from John Taylor, 14 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
IN the spirit of truth, and not of adulation, does the following performance solicit your attention. Nor is its hope of acquiring some share of your countenance diminished, by the circumstance of your not having in an official character withheld your signature, from several of the measures investigated. A responsibility in the chief magistrate, for the effects of every legislative act—an...
82627Commercial Discrimination, [14 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
In a lengthy speech made in the Committee of the Whole, Smith (South Carolina) on 13 January opposed commercial retaliation against Britain as set forth in Jefferson’s report of 16 December 1793 and JM’s resolutions of 3 January 1794 ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). , 3d Cong., 1st sess., 174–209). JM responded...
82628Proposed Presidential Message to Congress Concerning Revocation of Edmond Charles Genet’s Diplomatic Status, [6–13 … (Hamilton Papers)
Since the application, which was made to the Government of France, for the Recall of its present Minister, that Minister has furnished new and material causes of dissatisfaction with his Conduct. But these occasions of offence have hitherto passed without particular notice; in the hope that it would not be long before the arrival of an order of Recall would terminate the embarrassment—and in...
82629Alexander Hamilton’s Proposed Presidential Message to Congress, 6–13 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Since the application, which was made to the Government of France, for the Recall of its present Minister, that Minister has furnished new and material causes of dissatisfaction with his Conduct. But these occasions of offence have hitherto passed without particular notice; in the hope that it would not be long before the arrival of an order of Recall would terminate the embarrassment—and in...
82630From Alexander Hamilton to Samuel Hodgdon, 13 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 13, 1794. “… applications similar to yours of the 11th instant should pass through the office of the Secretary at war—whence they will come to the Treasury.…” LS , Columbia University Libraries. Letter not found. This letter is endorsed “Answer’d.” Letter not found.
82631From Alexander Hamilton to William Rawle, 13 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
Inclosed you will find the Copy of a letter of the 4. instant from the Comptroller of the Treasury. The subject of it is particularly interesting to the public Credit. I request that you will adopt such prompt and efficacious measures as you shall deem advisable to bring the point of the liability of public Stock to attachment to a determination in the Court of the U States. Haveing heretofore...
82632Report on the Petition of Daniel Parker, [13 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred by the House of Representatives the Memorial of Daniel Parker, respectfully makes thereupon the following Report. The Suggestions contained in the Memorial do not appear to be of a nature to call for a readjustment of the Account. The probability of peace within the Year was an event to have been calculated upon on both Sides in forming the...
82633[Speech by William Loughton Smith], [13 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Annals of Congress The Debates and Proceedings of the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature (Washington, 1834–1849). , IV, 174–209. John C. Hamilton states that Smith’s speech “was from the pen of Hamilton as appears from his autographed draft” ( Hamilton, History John C. Hamilton, Life of...
82634To George Washington from Juris Peritus, 13 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
The promotion of Mr Randolph to the office of Secretary of State having left his place vacant, the public mind is considerably interested in conjecturing who will be his successor —Aware of your zeal for the public welfare & persuaded that you regard your power of nominating to office as a trust for the benefit of the people; the universal sentiment is, that in order to fix on the most...
82635To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 13 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
E. Randolph has the honor of sending to the President the inclosed letter, which came from the Post-office. E.R. cannot ascertain, whether it came by the mail, or some vessel recently arrived here. E.R. will thank the President to direct Mr Dandridge to inclose it, after he has read it. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His...
82636Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to William Shotwell & Company, 13 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States is desirous of obtaining about 10 bushels of the best Clover seed Some timothy d[itt]o to send to his Farms in Virginia—& as you have heretofore furnished him with seed, he has now directed me to ask of you the lowest prices at which the best Clover & Timothy seed is to be had with you. As the time approaches when it will be wanted, & as the President will...
82637From James Madison to Tench Coxe, [ca. 13 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
… 1. Of the grain & flour of late years exported to G. B. what proportion was probably consumed there. 2. Is rice or tobo. sent from Portugal or Spain at all to the French or Dutch markets, where no discrimination exists in favor of the American? 3. How far is the British discrimn. in favor of our woods really operative ? 4. In estimating reexports which make a part of any manufactured...
82638To James Madison from Hubbard Taylor, 13 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed you will receive some papers of a public nature that has very lately made their appearance; considerable exertions will be made by many to carry the design into effect. As the navigation of the Mississippi is held up as the primary object it will avail much. That we have some cause of complaint on that head is very clear to me, but wheather the present plan is the most proper and...
82639From James Madison to Tench Coxe, [ca. 13 January 1794] (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison presents his thanks to Mr. Coxe for the paper sent him a few days ago on the subject of sugar, tob. whale oil and rice. Mr. M will be further obliged to him for any aids he may possess toward an elucidation of the amt. of re-exports from G. B. If Mr. Coxe can add brief & early answer to the following queries, Mr. M. will also be sensible of the favor. 1. Of the grain & flour of...
82640Abigail Adams to John Adams, 12 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
My Neighbour captain Beals went to Town yesterday and was so good as to bring up, and send me my Letters last Evening, whilst I was sitting mourning that I had no hope of getting them, as the travelling was very bad and the Day stormy. I find the Family an agreable acquisition. we live upon friendly & social terms. I agree with mr Izzard, that we are grown too old to live seperate, and I could...
82641Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
I wish you to direct the inclosed Letter—to your Father I read Barnevelt in Mondays paper. it may be necessary to defend himself, but I look upon his opponent in a contemtable light, and that no honour or reputation is to be obtaind in a contest with him. I therefore wish to see Barnevelt close Your Father is really affraid that columbus may be inflated with vanity and too much emboldened. he...
82642From Alexander Hamilton to Tench Coxe, [12 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
My whole supply of Cash having been exhausted in the advance on account of Mr. Church—if you can spare it for some days I will thank you for 300 dollars of the proceeds of the Note by way of loan till I can make some further arrangements. Yrs Are not some of the British West Indies open to our vessels at this time? Which of them ALS , Papers of Tench Coxe in the Coxe Family Papers at the...
82643To George Washington from Joseph Caverly, 12 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I under stand that their are A Number of Ships of war to Be Built. I Should Be Glad if it would not Be to troblesom to you for you to Assist me In Arecting A Yard In this state and if you should not think me capelable of that Business I could Git A Recommendation from comedore Nickelson of New York to whome I have Rote on the Subject their is A Near Neighbour By Name Richard Spriggs that has A...
82644From George Washington to William Pearce, 12 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Taking it for granted that you have arrived at Mount Vernon, before this, I shall direct this letter to you at that place, & shall mention such things as have occurred to me, proper for your notice & government. From a review of the plan of rotation which has been already communicated to you, it appears (if it can be carried into affect this year) that you will want the following seeds, and at...
82645To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Hodgdon, 11 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ January 11, 1794. On January 13, 1794, Hamilton wrote to Hodgdon concerning “applications similar to yours of the 11th instant.” Letter not found. ] Hodgdon, who had served in the commissary department of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, was quartermaster general of the United States Army from March 4, 1791, until April 12, 1792. From the fall of 1792 until June, 1794, he...
82646To Alexander Hamilton from Medad Mitchell, [11 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury will pardon a Man who no longer considers himself an American, for this address to his feelings, his honor, and his humanity. There was a time when Patriotism induced me to lay open the intrigues of a foreighn Court, at that time poverty made me desperate, and what I laid, before the Secretary, was the efforts of the greatest industry, that distress coud extort...
82647To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, [11 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of State begs the favor of the Secretary of the Treasury to order a warrant to be made out on account of the foreign fund, in the disposal of the department of State, for twenty thousand Dollars; this being the sum, which from Mr. Jefferson’s memoranda, appears to be proper to be remitted now to the Bankers in Amsterdam for the use of our ministers abroad. Bills are engaged at...
82648Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Henry Knox, 11 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
B. Dandridge has the honor by the Presidents order, to send the enclosed Proceedings of the Senate, on the subject of the Treaty with the Wabash & Illinois Indians, to the Secretary of War for his information. AL , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . The enclosure has not been identified, but it contained a copy of the resolution passed on 9 Jan., in which the Senate refused, by a vote of 21 to 4, to give...
82649To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Mr Jefferson has noted among the papers, which accompany the Algerine communications, that “there is no fund, out of which the hire of the Swedish vessel can be paid.” I beg leave therefore to submit, to your consideration, Whether you will order payment of Mr Church’s bill, to the amount of one hundred and fifty pounds sterling, out of the contingent fund in your disposal. I have the honor,...
82650To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
I saw Mr Bourne and Mr Bradford together yesterday. The former is disinclined to the office of district attorney, saying, among many other things by way of objection, that nothing would tempt him to bring down upon him the fire of both parties. They agreed in the superiority of Howell as to talents; but as he never read the law, until he began to practise, I cannot conceive, that he possesses...
82651To George Washington from William Stephens Smith, 11 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
When I had the honor of addressing a Letter to The President, last, it was dictated by the necessity I was then under of retiring from public employment—in which I took the liberty of observing, that I should not discover a disposition to return to it, under the then administration. without entering into a detail of the Circumstances which produced that decission, on my part, I shall observe,...
82652To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, [10 January 1794] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inclose to the Secretary of the Treasury, a copy of an answer to certain queries proposed in pursuance of the Secretary’s enquiries, to the consul of the United Netherlands, relative to the commercial intercourse between the United States, and the Dutch American continental Colonies. L, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Jan Hendrick Christian Heinaken. See enclosure.
82653To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 10 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
E. Randolph begs the favor of Colo Hamilton, to inform him, whether the bills mentioned in a note the other day, on Amsterdam for the use of our ministers, be attainable? Mr. Marshall is going to England in a day or two, and E.R. wishes to inform them of the supply. LC , RG 59, Domestic Letters of the Department of State, Vol. 6, January 2–June 26, 1794, National Archives. See Randolph to H,...
82654Report on the Actual Tonnage Employed Between the United States and Foreign Countries for a Year Ending the 30th of … (Hamilton Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of Representatives a Statement of the actual Tonnage employed between the United States and Foreign Countries for a year ending the 30th of September 1792, which is the statement that remained to be reported of those required by their order of the 3d instant. Copy, RG 233, Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1784–1795, Vol....
82655From George Washington to James Madison, 10 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Herewith you will receive Sundry Pamphlets &ca under the patronage of Sir John Sinclair. I send you his letters to me also, that the design may be better understood. From all these, you will be able to decide, whether a plan of enquiry similar to the one set on foot in G. Britn, would be likely to meet legislative or other encouragement, and of what kind, in this Country. These, or any other...
82656To James Madison from Walter Jones, 10 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
I am again tempted to intice you to a Correspondence, which you have so kindly Supported without a prospect of an equivalent return. I once thought that my presence where you are, would have Saved us both this Pains. However a majority of Voters, not of the Electors of the District, preferred the Services of their Sitting Member, with whom you are probably not unacquainted. As the sound...
82657To James Madison from George Washington, 10 January 1794 (Madison Papers)
Herewith you will receive sundry Pamphlets &ca. under the patronage of Sir John Sinclair. I send you his letters to me also, that the design may be better understood. From all these, you will be able to decide, whether a plan of enquiry similar to the one set on foot in G. Britn, would be likely to meet legislative or other encouragement, and of what kind, in this Country. These, or any other...
82658Appropriations, [10 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
In the Committee of the Whole debate on the 1794 federal budget, Giles moved the separation of “the estimate of appropriations for the civil list, and for discharging the current expences of the government, from the articles” dealing with military appropriations. The point was to clear the way for appropriations to carry on the daily business of government. Mr. Madison said, that members had...
82659Santo Domingan Refugees, [10 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
On 1 January a petition was read from a committee appointed by the Maryland Assembly to distribute $13,000 in relief, raised by private subscription in Baltimore, to some three thousand French refugees from Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), “stating that their funds are nearly exhausted, and praying the relief and aid of Congress” ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the...
82660II. John Adams to Charles Adams, 9 January 1794 (Adams Papers)
I received this Morning your valuable Letter of the 6 th and am much pleased with your Observations as well as with your Researches. but I wish you would examine the Passage in Polybius in Greek. It is the highest Satisfaction to me to perceive that you have so just a sense of the Importance of the Beleif of a Deity and his Providence and moral Government to the Happiness of Nations as well as...