From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 4 April 1794
To the United States Senate and House of Representatives
United States 4 April 1794.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives.
I lay before you three letters from our Minister in London;1 advices concerning the Algierine Mission, from our Minister at Lisbon and others;2 and a letter from the Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Secretary of State, with his answer.3
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB, DNA: RG 233, Third Congress, 1793–95, House Records of Legislative Proceedings, Journals; Df, DNA: RG 59, Reports of the Secretary of State to the President and Congress; LB, DLC:GW.
1. For the letters from Thomas Pinckney, see Randolph to GW, 3 April, and n.1.
2. For the letters from David Humphreys, see Randolph to GW, 1 April, and n.1 to that document.
3. Fauchet’s letter to Randolph of 27 March was a response to complaints about the French embargo imposed on the port of Bordeaux (see Randolph to GW, 19 March [first letter], and n.6). For this letter and Randolph’s response of 3 April, see DNA: RG 46, Third Congress, 1793–95, Senate Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; , 1:431–32.