1An Interlude at Dolly’s Chop House, [21 March?] 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...Mr. Jefferson, then our minister to France, had been a short time before called by a private letter of Mr. Adams, then our minister at London, to consult upon the terms of treaties with Portugal and Algiers. This letter was carried by Mr. Smith, then Adams’ Secretary of Legation, and later the husband of his only daughter. Jefferson returned with him to London, where they met Richard Peters,...
2To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 7 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you, under yesterday’s date, letters to be forwarded by four different conveyances, containing information that a Truce for twelve months was concluded between Portugal and Algiers; and that a Fleet of eight Algerine Cruizers had gone through the Streights into the Atlantic.
3To Thomas Jefferson from David Humphreys, 8 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already forwarded for you five copies of Dispatches, to inform you, that a Truce for twelve Months was concluded between Portugal and Algiers; and that a fleet of Algerine Cruizers had gone through the Streights into the Atlantic, on Saturday night last. They were reported to me by an officer of a Portuguese frigate who spoke with them, to consist of...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Church, 12 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
...directly or indirectly to negociate in behalf of her Majesty, they considered the business as only in embryo; but the british Court zealous over-much for the happiness of the two nations Portugal and Algiers, in order to precipitate this important business, very officiously authorized Charles Logie the british Consul-General and Agent at Algiers, not only to treat, but to conclude for and in...
5To George Washington from Richard O’Bryen, 5 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
For discussion of the 12 Sept. truce between Portugal and Algiers, see
6To George Washington from David Humphreys, 23 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
Humphreys was referring to the September truce between Portugal and Algiers (see
7Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
, reporting the truce
between Portugal and Algiers; , both about the truce
between Portugal and Algiers (
8To Thomas Jefferson from Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 11 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Presidents order Bw. Dandridge has the honor to transmit the enclosed papers relating to the truce between Portugal and Algiers, to the Secretary of State and to inform the Secretary that the President wishes him to prepare such information respecting the same as may be necessary to be made public—and as considerable expence has been incurred in the...
9To Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
On October 11, 1793, Edward Church had received a letter from Humphreys, who was at Gibraltar awaiting an opportunity to go to Algiers, stating that a truce had been signed between Portugal and Algiers (...between Portugal and Algiers. In consequence of which a fleet of Algerine Cruizers passed through the Streights into the Atlantic, on Saturday night last” (copy, RG 59, Despatches from...
10From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 16 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
. According to Church, the secretary stated that the
truce between Portugal and Algiers had been engineered by British consul Charles
Logie and was “by no means agreeable” to the Portuguese, who were “far from being
disposed” to pay the required tribute to Algiers. He “intimated that the Algerines
would...