261To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 9 September 1797 (Jay Papers)
Perhaps you may think the rude and insolent letter of the Chevalier de Yrujo to me, dated the 11th of July, not entitled to an answer, especially as the documents which had been made public proved to every well informed man and attentive reader that his observations were either futile or unfounded. But I thought it would be necessary to make some remarks on his letter, to be eventually...
262To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 28 October 1797 (Jay Papers)
Last evening I received the inclosed letter for you from M r . King. With His dispatches by the W m . Penn I received a copy of the treaty of commerce & navigation between G. Britain & Russia, concluded the 21st of February last. There is no provision, that free ships shall make free goods. The articles of contraband are confined to those immediately relating to war, and do not comprehend...
263To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 13 December 1797 (Jay Papers)
Yesterday, in conversation with M r . FitzSimons (who, you will doubtless recollect, is one of the commissioners on the claims of British debts) he mentioned two questions of vast importance which were presented at the threshold of the business: one, ^on^ which side lay the onus probandi respecting the solvency or insolvency of the debtor—the other, whether interest should or should not be...
264To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 9 April 1798 (Jay Papers)
The dispatches from our envoys in Paris being published this morning, I do myself the pleasure to inclose you a copy. Unless the corruption of the French Government and their unjust, tyrannical, rapacious and insulting conduct towards the U. States shall rouse the indignant spirit of the people , our independence is at an end. The leaders of the opposition in Congress, while thunderstruck with...
265To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 20 July 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have this moment received your letter of the 18 th . By the newspapers which go hence this morning, you will see your wishes respecting Col o . Hamilton gratified. At the head of the appointments, he is Inspector General with the rank of Major General. This was intended to place him next in command to Gen l . Washington: yet I feel some solicitude about the effect. Under circumstances not...
266To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 6 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
By this day’s mail I have addressed to you two copies of the laws passed at the last session of Congress. Of the ten thousand copies of the instructions to & dispatches from our envoys to the French Republic, I propose to send eight hundred to be distributed in the state of New-York. They are now ready, & I shall forward them to the Collector M r . Sands at the city of New York.— For the...
267To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 17 June 1800 (Jay Papers)
Allow me to present to you M r . Williams & M r . Putnam, my relations from Massachusetts, who in returning from their visit to me, contemplate going by the way of Albany; and in that case wished to pay their respects to you. I have conversed with them very fully on the recent proceedings of the President, and furnished them with some facts and observations in writing, for the information of...
268To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Pickering, 26 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose a copy of the President’s proclamation for convening the Congress of the United States at this city on the 15th of next May; and to be with great respect your most obt. servant RC ( NNPM ); at foot of text: “The Vice-President of the United States.” FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). Recorded in SJL as received 8 Apr. 1797. Enclosure: Proclamation by President Adams...
269To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Pickering, 25 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Since sending you this morning a concise statement of Mr. Short’s claim for nine thousand dollars , as it appeared from the books in my office , I have received from the Secretary of the Treasury the following memorandum: “Mr. Jefferson has had a conversation with Mr. Harrison, Auditor, in which it was understood that Mr. Randolph had applied Two thousand pounds for Mr. Short’s use, for which...
270To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Pickering, 25 February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of seeing you, I have conversed with the Secretary of the Treasury, from whom I learn that the suit against Mr. Randolph is still pending—that he claims a credit for the nine thousand dollars which Mr. Short desired him to lay out in the purchase of public Stock, saying it was a private transaction; and that as the issue depends on the judgement of the court, it will be...