1From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 15 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several Memorials of the 8th. instant, have been laid before the President, as had been that of the 2d. as soon as received. They have been considered with all the attention and the impartiality which a firm determination could inspire to do what is equal and right between all the belligerent powers. In one of these, you communicate on the information of the british Consul at Charleston,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 5 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In the letter which I had the honor of writing you on the 15th. of May, in answer to your several memorials of the 8th. of that month, I mentioned that the President reserved, for further consideration, a part of the one which related to the equipment of two privateers in the port of Charleston. The part alluded to, was that wherein you express your confidence that the Executive Government of...
3From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 13 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Memorial of the 11th. instant, stating that the British brigantine Catharine has been taken by the French frigate the Embuscade within 2. or 2½miles of the shores of the US. was duly laid before the President, and in consequence thereof the Governor of New York, where the brigantine is understood to be arrived, is desired to take possession of her. It being now supposed that the tribunals...
4From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter of the 14th. inst. I have the honor to inform you that the French privateers therein mentioned were required to depart to the dominions of their own sovereign, and nothing particularly expressed as to their ulterior movements; that it is expected that the speedy departure of those vessels will obviate the inconveniencies apprehended in your letter; and that it will be...
5From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour to address you a letter on the 29th. of May was twelvemonth on the articles still unexecuted of the treaty of peace between the two nations. The subject was extensive and important, and therefore rendered a certain degree of delay in the reply, to be expected. But it has now become such as naturally to generate disquietude. The interest we have in the Western posts, the blood...
6From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Feb. 2d. 1792. I had the honor of conveying to you the President’s sentiments on the assurances you had then been pleased to give of the strict neutrality of your Government between us and the Indians in our neighborhood. You do to that testimony but the Justice which it merits, in not allowing yourself, for a moment, to infer from the passage, in my letter of the 19th. instant,...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 25 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of your’s of the 19th. instant. In mine of the same date, I had that of stating to you the matter of fact of the President’s requisition to the privateers in question. The development of it’s terms, and the inferences from them will, it is conceived, be most properly referred to the occasion which shall call for them. Such occasion may never happen; but, if it does, the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 26 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Government here has received complaint that the Snow Suckey, belonging to George Makepeace, a citizen of the United States, with her Cargo, belonging chiefly to Peter Le Maigre, and wholly to citizens of the United States, and not at all of the character of contraband, commanded by Anthony Andaulle a citizen also of the United States, and bound from the Port of Philadelphia to Port au...
9From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 26 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond and would be glad to be informed if there is any other testimony than that he sent him relative to the place of capture of the Ship William? He has heard that some one saw it from the shore whose testimony might be had. It is desireable that all the evidence possible should be produced. PrC ( DLC ). Tr ( DLC ); 19th-century copy. Enclosed...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet and George Hammond, 12 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the US. desirous of having done what shall be strictly conformeable to the treaties of the US. and the laws respecting the several representations received from yourself and the Minister Plenipotentiary of Great Britain on the subject of vessels arming or arriving within our ports, and of prizes, has determined to refer the questions arising thereon to persons learned in the...
11From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 1 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day laid before the President of the United States the enclosed papers, which you put into my hands before your departure for New York, and it is his opinion that if the vessel the Republican, therein mentioned as having been sent into New York, be a prize made on the Citizens of France, she ought not to be detained, but to be ordered to retire as soon as possible: And that if she...
12From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 4 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of addressing you on the 1st. instant on the subject of the Republican sent into New York by the Boston frigate as her tender, I have received a letter from the Minister of France alledging that the Boston captured the Republican within the limits of the protection of the US. Should this be agreeable to the fact in your own judgment, I would request her delivery to her...
13From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A constant expectation of carrying into full effect the declaration of the President, against permitting the armament of vessels within the Ports of the united States, to cruize on nations with which they are at Peace, has hitherto prevented my giving you a final answer on the subject of such vessels and their prizes. Measures to this effect are still taking, and particularly for excluding...
14From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 8 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to trouble you in the following cases of captures of American vessels by British privateers, and to ask your intervention therein. The first is, that of M. le Maigre, a citizen of this State, on whose behalf I had on a former occasion to apply to you on the capture of the Snow Suckey, his property. He has lately had also a Brig called the Molly commanded by Captain Bernard Razer, laden...
15From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 8 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your favor of this morning and am authorized to assure you that the denial of asylum in our ports, was not meant to be confined to the Citoyen Genet, but to extend to all vessels armed in our ports. I had no information before of the Anti-George, named in your letter. But if she is in the same predicament, she will be subject to the same rule. I have the honor to be with...
16From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 24 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond and incloses him a copy of a commission of a Mr. Moore to be Vice-Consul of Gr. Britain for the state of Rhode-island, on which an Exequatur is asked. As it has been our practice hitherto, where there is a Minister from the same nation, to issue Exequaturs only on his authentication of the Commission, Th: Jefferson takes the liberty of...
17From Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond, 27 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honour to inform Mr. Hammond, that on examination of the proceedings of his office he finds the usage to be to produce the original of the Consular commissions to the President: and for this reason that if the office be called on by a court of justice on any question relative to the Consul, a certificate in the nature of an Inspeximus is sent them, which supposes there...