Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 13 July 1805

To DeWitt Clinton

Washington July 13. 05.

Dear Sir

Your favor of the 6th. has been duly recieved. the treaty with France stipulates what is suggested in your letter. French decrees also insert the cause of condemnation. with respect to Gr. Britain, it is some time since we gave instructions to propose a Convention for the same purpose. the considerations you urge will furnish proper grounds for further pressing the subject. Accept my friendly salutations & assurances of great esteem & respect

Th: Jefferson

RC (NNC); addressed: “DeWitt Clinton esq. N. York”; franked and postmarked; endorsed by Clinton. PoC (DLC); endorsed by TJ.

treaty with France: articles 15 through 22 of the Convention of 1800 regulated neutral rights and merchant claims arising from violations of those rights (Miller, Treaties description begins Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., 1931–48, 8 vols. description ends , 2:469-75; Clinton to TJ, 6 July).

we gave instructions: on 5 Jan. 1804, Madison sent instructions to James Monroe to inform his negotiations with Great Britain on the subject of neutral rights (Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962– : Sec. of State Ser., Pres. Ser., Ret. Ser. description ends , 6:282-308, 349-50; Vol. 42:245–51).

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    Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 13 July 1805
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    13 July 1805

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    “Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 13 July 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-47-02-0049. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 47, 6 July to 19 November 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, p. 41.]

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