1To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 March 1794 (Washington Papers)
On the British role in obtaining a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which left
American shipping in the Atlantic Ocean vulnerable to seizure, see
2To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
...to Britain’s failure to return western forts in accord with the treaty of Paris, her orders in council of November 1793 for the seizure of American vessels bound to France, the encouragement of a truce between Portugal and Algiers, which loosed the Barbary pirates against American commerce, and Lord Dorchester’s speech echoing Indian hostility to the United States. He "then said, that if a...