31Translation: From Edmond Charles Genet, 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Executive council of the French republic has learnt through my predecessor, the citizen Ternant, the readiness with which the government of the US. of A. attended to the facilitation of the purchases which that minister was charged to make in the US. on account of the French republic, as also the acquittal of the draughts of the colonies for which imperious circumstances obliged it to...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Telfair, 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inclose you two letters, with the papers which accompanied them, from the Spanish commissioners here to myself. One of them is relative to the slaves taken forcibly from E. Florida, by Harrison, Rees, and others, which was the subject of a letter I had the honor of writing you on the 3d. of July 1792. The other respects some fugitive slaves from that government into your...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Ternant, with Jefferson’s Notes on Diplomatic Medals, 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the United States in a letter addressed to the provisory executive Council of the french republic, has expressed his sense of your merit and his entire approbation of your conduct while here. He has also charged me to convey to yourself the same sentiments on his part. It is with pleasure I obey this charge, in bearing witness to the candour and integrity of your conduct with...
34From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President a letter to the Govr. of Georgia, and two others on the occasion of Mr. Ternant’s recall. He sends at the same time the letters which were written on the recall of Mr. De Moustier, as it is necessary to preserve a certain proportion between the expressions used on these occasions. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the...
35From Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, 23 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yet to acknolege the receipt of your two favors of Apr. 10. and 15. I have learnt from Baltimore that the 3. pipes of wine are reshipped from thence to Richmond to your address, where I hope them safely arrived as well as the packages of furniture sent from this place. Mr. Donald had shipped for me from Dublin a box of books by the Young eagle Elias Lord. The note said she was bound to...
36Translation, 23 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Single against innumerable hordes of tyrants and slaves who menace her rising liberty, the French nation would have a right to reclaim the obligations imposed on the US. by the treaties she has contracted with them and which she has cemented with her blood: but strong in the greatness of her means, and of the power of her principles not less redoutable to her enemies than the victorious arms...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Harry Innes, 23 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in your debt for several letters received and not yet acknoleged . One of these is particularly to be noticed, as it was interesting to you; I mean that which concerned your slaves carried off by the Indians. I knew that the channel proposed in your letter would effect nothing. I therefore concluded to take the opportunity which I knew was to occur, of endeavoring to serve you through the...
38Notes of a Conversation with George Washington, 23 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
1793. May 23. I had sent to the President yesterday, draughts of a letter from him to the Provisory Exec. council of France, and of one from myself to Mr. Ternant, both on the occasion of his recall. I called on him to-day. He said there was a word in one of them which he had never before seen in any of our public communications, to wit ‘our republic.’ The letter prepared for him to the...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genet, 24 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson having forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury the application of Mr. Genet on behalf of Mr. Vanuxem, has now the honor to inclose to Mr. Genet the answer he has received, and of assuring him of his respect. PrC ( DLC ). FC ( Lb in DNA : RG 59, DL ). Enclosure: Alexander Hamilton to TJ, 23 May 1793 .
40From Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 24 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Bayley, is an English gentleman who has studied the laws of that country as the basis of ours, and proposes now to take up ours, as he means to engage in the practice in Virginia. Supposing it will take him a twelvemonth to complete this part of his study, he finds it necessary in aid of his finances to become tutor in some private family, or clerk in some office, if any...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 24 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You may remember that I had the honour of presenting to you at Paris my ingenious countryman Mr. Rumsey , as the discoverer of a simple and advantageous method of propelling vessels thro’ the water by steam. You first mentioned to me the step which Bernoulli had advanced towards the same discovery. Mr. Rumsey is since dead, and the bearer hereof Mr. Barnes , a citizen of the United states,...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Gouverneur Morris, 24 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Mr. Barnes, is, as I understand, the representative of the company concerned in the steam navigation of the late Mr. Rumsey, was the attorney of Mr. Rumsey here, and goes now to Europe to secure the benefit of his discoveries to those entitled to them. In times like these he may need your protection as a stranger, and at all times would merit it as a man of worth and...
43George Washington to the Provisional Executive Council of France, [24 May 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
The citizen Ternant has delivered to me the letter wherein you inform me that yielding to his desire to serve his country in the military line, you had determined to recall him from his mission as your Minister plenipotentiary to the US. His conduct during the time of his residence in this country has been such as to meet my entire approbation and esteem; and it is with great pleasure I render...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Sim Lee, 25 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your Excellency’s letter of the 20th. and have duly laid the same before the President. Measures had been already taken for prosecuting such American citizens as had joined in the capture therein mentioned, a letter to that effect having been written to the Attorney of the US. in the state of Maryland. With respect to the prize, the government did not think itself authorised...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Ravara, 25 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely lament the situation in which you are unhappily placed. Though circumstances have worn such an aspect as to render it necessary in the opinion of the magistrate to subject them to a legal enquiry, yet I hope they will be found finally inconclusive. But till that enquiry, there is no power in this country which can withdraw you from the custody of the law, nor shorten it’s duration....
46From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your and Mr. Randolph’s welcome favors of the 16th. came to hand yesterday, by which I perceive that your post-day for writing is the Thursday. Maria is here and, tho not in flourishing health, is well. I will endeavour to prevail on her to write, and perhaps may succeed, as the day is too wet to admit her saunters on the banks of the Schuylkill, where she passes every Sunday with me. We are...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Rose, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 13th. and I hasten to answer it, tho’ a long interruption of my attention to questions of law renders it necessary for me to give opinions on them with great diffidence, and especially where the Virginia laws come into consideration, as they have been so much changed since I knew any thing of them. As these stood when I left Virginia in 1784. you might...
48From Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, [26 May 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received, my Dear Sir, the note you inclosed for the 64. dollars which was paid.—We have two blind stories here of which as yet we make nothing. The one is that DuMourier is gone over to the Austrians. The credit of this stands on an English paper only. It is opposed (not by the virtue of the man; he has none, but) by the great forfeit of reputation which he has acquired with the world,...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Holland and Peter Mackie, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your memorial claiming a part of the cargo on board the brigantine Little Sarah, a British vessel taken by the French frigate L’Embuscade, having been referred to the Attorney General of the US. I now inclose you a copy of his answer by which you will perceive it to be his opinion that you are not entitled to restitution. I have therefore rendered you the only service which the nature of the...
50From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 19th. The doubts I then entertained that the offers from the Fr. rep. would be declined, will pretty certainly be realized. One person represents them as a snare into which he hopes we shall not fall. His second of the same sentiment of course. He whose vote for the most part, or say always, is casting , has by two or three private conversations or rather disputes with...
51From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President, (among other papers,) those relating to a commercial treaty with France, and to the reimbursement of the French debt, being translations of the communications of Mr. Genet on those subjects. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Translations of...
52Cabinet Opinion on the Creek Indians and Georgia, 29 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the United States having assembled the heads of the respective departments and the attorney General, laid before them for their advice thereon, sundry communications from the Governor of Georgia, and others, relatively to the recent alarming depredations of the creek Indians upon the State of Georgia. Whereupon after the subject was maturely considered and discussed it was...
53From Thomas Jefferson to John Nixon, 29 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
When Mr. Cruger delivered his papers to me, it was concluded that as Mr. Genet was expected daily, it would be better to await his arrival and put the case into his hands, that he might adopt his own plan of redressing it, than to put it into the hands of Mr. Ternant, just then going out of office. We have not got into a train of business with Mr. Genet till within these few days, and these...
54From Thomas Jefferson to F. P. Van Berckel, 29 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favored with your note of the 22d. instant, stating that under circumstances of invasion, and urgent danger, their High Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands had found it necessary to lay an embargo on all vessels in their Ports, and that an American Ship, the Hope , being involved in this general order, the master had claimed an exemption, under the eighth article of...
55To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, with Jefferson’s Note, 30 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The return of Warder’s bills under protest has embarrassed me so much, as to make me request the favor of your name to the inclosed. You shall hear no more of it. [ Note by TJ: ] In consequence of the above I endorsed E.R’s note for 1000 D. payable at 60. days sight. RC ( MHi ); with TJ’s note subjoined; addressed: “Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 May 1793. Enclosure not found.
56From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 30 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President French copies of the communications of Mr. Genet on the subject of our debt to France, as they will convey his sense perhaps more faithfully to the Secretary of the treasury should the President think proper to refer them to him.—He has changed the expression in the close of the 2d. paragraph of the letter to Mr. Van Berkel, so as to...
57From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael and William Short, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letters of Oct. 14. and Nov. 3. 1792, I communicated to you, papers and Observations, on the conduct of the Spanish Officers on our South Western frontier, and particularly of the Baron de Carondelet, the Governor of New Orleans. These made it evident that he had industriously excited the Southern Indians to war against us, and had furnished them with Arms and Ammunition, in abundance,...
58To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, with Jefferson’s Note, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The requisition of departure is, in my judgment, expressed in the most accurate and satisfactory manner possible. It gives me real pleasure to find the strong measure capable of such a softening of feature, while it retains full nerve. Were I to speak for myself, as an individual, I should assent with equal cordiality to the last clause. But I can’t help believing, that it would accord better...
59From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to send the President draughts of letters on the subjects discussed in his presence the other day, meant merely as a ground-work for the gentlemen to propose amendments to. He shall be able to send another in the course of to-day, so that the whole would be ready for consideration tomorrow, if the President should think proper to have them considered before the...
60From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has now the honor of inclosing to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Genet on the subject of the departure of the privateer.—Also a letter just received from Colo. Humphreys. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear as a letter of 1 June 1793. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Draft of TJ to...