1From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 22 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to acknowlege your letter of yesterday. You will find enclosed warrants on the Treasurer for the sums you desire, that is to say, one in favour of yourself for Eight thousand three hundred and twenty five Dollars, the other in favour of Mr. De la forest, Vice Consul General of France for Twenty two thousand Dollars. The amounts of these warrants will be paid by the Treasurer...
2From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 8 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor of your letter of this date, communicating the copy of one to you from the Secretary of State in answer to your application of the 3d. instant. Assuring you of the pleasure I shall feel, in executing the views of the President, relatively to the accommodation, which is desired, in as efficacious a manner, as the state of our public resources compared with our public exigencies...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, [11 March 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
I hoped ere this to have sent you the calculation desired. But it happens that the Gentleman of my Office whom I usually employ on such occasions is unwell and I have been too much engaged myself to test by calculation the idea which has been in my mind. Of this however you are sure that the charges being 4 ⅌ Ct and the interest for 6 Months 2½ ⅌ Ct 6½ ⅌ Ct six and a half ⅌ Ct. is the utmost...
4From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 12 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have the honor to receive your letter of the 10th. instant, and Mr. de la Forest has applied at the Treasury for the payment of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars at the moment when 1 was about to request you would take order for the receipt of that sum. A warrant on the Treasurer has in course been executed. With very great respect & attachment, I have the honor to be Sir Your...
5From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 23 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
It has been heretofore understood between us, that the supplies furnished and payments made, or to be made, within the United States, on account of the debt due to France, should be liquidated according to the intrinsic par of the metals in the two Countries. It remains to settle what this par is, and to deduce from it the true value of a French livre in the legal Currency of the United...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 26 June 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
In answer to your letter of this date, it is only necessary for me to say that it is perfectly agreeable to this Government, that the principle of liquidation, to which you refer should receive its application in France, and that the accounts for supplies and advances of money should be there definitively fixed. I am authorised by The President to say that instructions will accordingly be sent...