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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
American State Papers --INDEX TO FOREIGN RELATIONS. VOL. I.
[Including the Executive messages at the opening of each session of Congress from 1789 to 1814.]
Speech of, to Congress, ... 40, 44, 47, 53
Inaugural address, ... 38
Declares the principles by which he will be directed, ... 39
Adverts to the sentiments and conduct of the French Directory, ... 40
Proposes to institute a new negotiation with France, ... 40
Recommends defensive measures, ... 41
Asserts the impartiality and justice of the American Government, ... 42
Recommends the imposition of taxes and refraining from loans, ... 45
Recommends an adherence to a pacific policy, and preparation for war, ... 47, 48
Considers a navy indispensable, ... 41, 48, 54
Invokes the blessing of Heaven, ... 53
Replies to addresses of the Senate, ... 43, 46, 49, 52, 55
Replies to addresses of the House of Representatives, ... 43, 47, 50, 53, 56
Of the Senate to the President, (See Senate) ... 10
Of the House of Representatives, (See House of Representatives) ... 11
Farewell, of Washington, to the American people, ... 34
Informs the American Government, by the order of his own, of the success of France in forming treaties with Prussia, Spain, Tuscany, and Hesse Cassel, 1796, March 11, ... 550
Letter of, to the Secretary of State: the scourges of war aggravated by the plunder of neutral vessels by Great Britain; France compelled by American acquiescence to follow her example; neutral Powers, causing their rights to be respected, will have nothing to fear, 1796, Oct. 27, ... 576, 577
Acknowledges the Secretary's note of November 1, 1796, Nov. 3, ... 579
Reply to the note of November 1; menaces; reproaches; complaints; allegations against the United States of duplicity, weakness, partiality, insensibility to the claims of justice and honor; with disregarding their neutral obligations; affording an asylum to British ships of war; declining liberal commercial overtures; violating treaty stipulations, and forming in opposition to them a connexion with Great Britain; declares that the vessels of the United States will be exposed to plunder from French vessels of war and privateers; that his ministerial functions are suspended, though this suspension is not to be viewed as an immediate rupture, 1796, Nov. 15, ... 579
Notes to this letter, ... 583 to 588
Observations on the British treaty: on the subject of contraband, it gives advantages to Great Britain withheld from France, and violates the 23d and 24th articles of commercial treaty; and, in respect to ships of war and prizes, renders the 17th article inoperative, 1795, June 30, ... 594
Requesting the liberation of the French privateer La Vengeance, 1795, August 2, ... 621
To Mr. Pickering, Secretary of State, renewing his application in behalf of the Vengeance, 1795, ... 628
To Mr. Randolph, respecting the Cassius, detained by the arrest of the captain, 1795, August 9, ... 629
Transmits documents relating to the Cassius, 1795, Aug. 11, ... 630
To Mr. Pickering, relating to the Cassius, 1795, Aug. 18, ... 631
Remonstrates against the new arrest and detention of the Cassius, and against the jurisdiction of American courts in similar cases, 1795, Sept. 22, ... 632
Declines to furnish any other evidence than his own declaration that the Cassius was the property of the French republic, 1796, April 22, ... 635
Showing the time when the Cassius became the property of the French republic, 1796, April 25, ... 635
Abandoning the corvette Cassius to the American Government, ordered to ascertain damages due for her arrest and detention, 1796, June 3, ... 636
Communicates to Mr. Randolph the instructions of his Government respecting a liberal commercial treaty with the United States, 1795, June 30, ... 640
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Replies to Mr. Randolph's letter of June 6; Mr Randolph's letter has been referred to the French Government, 1795, June 20, ... 642
Transmits the Decree of 14th Nivose, revoking that of 25th Brumaire, 1795, July 14, ... 642
Injustice of Great Britain; effect of her measures on the United States; the rights and duties of neutrals; armed neutrality; Mr. Jefferson's authority; urges the United States to forcible resistance, 1795, Sept. 28, ... 643
To Mr. Pickering, that his note of September 28 remains unanswered; impressments by the British from American vessels should be resisted, 1795, March 29, ... 644
Encloses a letter in favor of Mr. Alexander; invites his attention to two unanswered letters, 1795, April 8, ... 644
On the subject of British impressment, 1975, April 21, ... 644
Remonstrates against the exportation from the United States of flour and horses for the use of Great Britain, 1796, Jan. 12, ... 645
Enforces the doctrine, that a neutral ought to prohibit its citizens from subserving the objects of a belligerent, from reason, authority, and example; that citizens of the United States ought not to be permitted to navigate British merchant vessels, or supply the British Government or citizens with flour and horses, 1796, March 11, ... 646, 649
Remonstrates against a bill to prohibit the sale of prizes brought into the United States by the ships of war of a belligerent; the right to sell prizes has been conceded to France exclusively, either by treaty or usage; France would be deprived by this act of an important privilege, 1796, May 18, ... 650
Unable to furnish Mr. Pickering with information concerning the intentions and character of the Flying Fish, 1796, June 14, ... 652
Has forbidden the French consul from giving any certificate respecting the Flying Fish, 1796, Oct. 7, ... 653
Disclaims any knowledge of recent orders by his Government in relation to the commerce of the United States; inquiries concerning prizes, 1796, July 14, ... 653
States the circumstances attending the French privateers Leo and Bellona; whose prizes, the Mary, Betty Cathcart, and Aaron, were prohibited from being sold; propounds four questions respecting the sale or unlading of prizes, 1796, Oct. 11, ... 654, 655
Complains of the disposition made of the French flag presented by the order of his Government to the United States, 1796, Jan. 9, ... 656
Complains of the departure from right and usage, by the publishers of directories and almanacs, in not assigning the precedency in the diplomatic corps to the French minister; requests the suppression of these publications, 1796, March 3, ... 657
States the attempted seizure of the former French minister, and his papers, by the English frigate Africa, within the waters of the United States, 1795, Aug. 10, ... 662
Renews the subject of the attempted seizure of Mr. Fauchet, by the Africa; requests that measures shall be adopted to prevent that vessel from remaining within the jurisdiction of the United States, 1795, Aug. 19, ... 665
Progressive state of, ... 16, 28, 73, 77
Measures for its encouragement suggested, ... 31
When most thriving, ... 59
For the protection of American seamen, ... 30
Suppression of, ... 58
On foreign territory, by citizens of United States, ... 19
On citizens of United States and their property by Spain, ... 66
Spanish, repelled by arms, ... 66
By British naval commanders, ... 70
Letters from, to Messrs. Carmichael and Short--Justifies the substance and the intentions of the representations of Jaudenes and Viar, 1793, November 15, ... 435
Avoids an explicit answer to the question, whether it was the intention of Spain to interfere, in the event of hostilities between the United States and the Southern Indians, 1793, November 26, ... 436
Disclaims any intention, on the part of Spain, to interfere between the United States and the Indians inhabiting their territory, 1793, December 18, ... 439
To Mr. Pinckney--Communicates the decision of the King in favor of the liberation of American vessels, and restitution of the cargoes of others, 1795, August 11, ... 537
Assents to a proposed modification of a project of a treaty, 1795, August 29, ... 538
Engagements with, fulfilled, ... 30
Prisoners taken by, liberated, ... 31
Aggressions by, ... 72
Banishes the American consul, ... 81
Prisoners captured by, message, report, and documents respecting, ... 100, 117, 129
Prisoners captured by, measures to redeem, 1791, ... 128, 133
Prisoners captured by, the advice of the Senate asked concerning their ransom, 1792, ... 135
Documents and papers respecting, ... 290, 291, 292, 293, 413, 414, 420, 423
Whether the commerce of the United States can be best protected against the depredations of, by war, tribute, or ransom, ... 104, 105, 106, 108
And Morocco, report of Secretary of State on negotiations with, ... 288
Captures seven American vessels, 1794, ... 413
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Report of a committee on the terms of a treaty, and the expediency of ratifying, 1796, February 29, ... 549
Message and report of Secretary of State, respecting the difficulties which occurred in executing the treaty with, and the means by which they were obviated, 1797, ... 553
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the amount and application of the fund destined to form a treaty with, 1797, January 4, ... 555
Report of a committee on the funds required to execute the treaty with, 1797, January 16, ... 558
Letter from the minister of France, tendering the services of his Government to effect a treaty with, 1794, ... 639
Measures respecting the treaty with, narrated by Mr. Monroe, 1795, October 4, ... 722, 723
Naturalized by the United States, treated as criminals, ... 85
Specific, for specific objects recommended, 1801, ... 58
Terms of, proposed by Great Britain, ... 81
Enlargement of, ... 76
Improved state of, ... 77
Provision for, recommended, ... 22, 29, 59, 67, 71
The manufacture of, supersedes foreign supply, ... 54
Their importation difficult, ... 72
And ammunition, their exportation recommended to be prohibited, ... 67
Means taken to manufacture and procure, ... 72
The public manufactories of, adequately enlarged, ... 73
Adequate supply of, nearly completed, ... 76
The supply of, adequate to any emergency, 1810, ... 77
And military supplies exported to one of the belligerents, subject only to capture, and not to prohibition, ... 147
The right of a neutral to vend to a belligerent, considered, ... 147
State of, ... 28
Proposition to raise a provisional, ... 41, 48
Discharge of temporary, ... 53
Reduction of, proposed, ... 58, 59
Its condition approved, and its augmentation unnecessary, ... 61, 64
The expediency of raising or increasing, submitted, ... 67, 68, 70
Additional measures proposed for filling ranks and prolonging enlistments, ... 79, 81, 84, 87
Volunteer corps require inducements, ... 81
New organization of particular corps, ... 81
Additional general officers required, ... 81
Staff of, requires re-organization, ... 81, 84
Modification of laws relating to, ... 75
Statements and estimates for, ... 77
Disposition of part of, ... 79
Seminaries for, recommended, ... 79
Arms and stores in, ... 22
Sites for, ... 29
Application of surplus revenue to the, ... 65
Progress of useful, ... 73
Attorney General Randolph--Opinion of, as to the extent of maritime jurisdiction, and the illegality of certain captures, ... 148
Opinion of, on the case of Gideon Henfield, an American citizen, who engaged in the military service of France, ... 152
Authorized to negotiate the ransom of American Algerine captives, ... 292, 293
Letter from, appointing Francis Coffyn commercial agent, ... 335
Death of, while minister to France, ... 84
Policy to be pursued towards, ... 62, 63
Neutrality of the United States respected by, ... 63
Violation by, of neutrality, ... 67, 71, 72
Injustice and violence of, ... 73
Injuries to American commerce committed by, ... 66, 70, 71, 76
State of affairs with, ... 76
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Correspondence and instructions concerning, ... 72
Captures British sloop of war Reindeer, ... 88
American vessels subjected to seizure and condemnation if entering, for the first time, ports in a state of, 1793, June 8, ... 239, 240
Of American commerce in the Mediterranean, ... 58
Of Tripoli, ... 63
Between Spanish possessions and the United States, ... 30, 44
Between the United States and Choctaws, ... 60
Northeastern and Northwestern, convention formed for their demarkation, 1803, 62
Between Louisiana and the possessions of Spain, ... 66, 68
Eastern, message and papers respecting, 1790, ... 90, 99
Report of a committee on, 1790, ... 100
Between Spain and the United States, instructions of the American Secretary of State to American commissioners, respecting, 1792, March 18, ... 252
Southern, of Georgia and the Spanish territory; examination of the question by Messrs. Carmichael and Short, 1793, 438
A proposition concerning, 1783, ... 572
Northeastern, (St. Croix,) an alteration of, pressed on Mr. Jay by Lord Grenville, but firmly declined, ... 485, 500
Attempts to induce their revocation, ... 72, 73, 76
Correspondence and instructions relating to, ... 72
Proposed withdrawal of, ... 74
Adopt a novel system of blockade, ... 77
Rigorously executed, ... 78
Their repeal demanded, ... 81
Their right of expatriation denied, ... 82, 85
Retaliatory imprisonment of, ... 85
Arraigned and discharged, ... 71
Operations against, ... 85, 86
Citizens of the United States in, compelled to bear arms, ... 85
Defeats of British forces in, ... 87
Ordered to depart; refuses; coerced; opinions of the diplomatic corps concerning, ... 729
Sequel of his affair, ... 730
To the Secretary of State, stating the unfavorable prospects from their conferences with the Spanish commissioners, on the questions of boundary and the Mississippi, 1793, April 18, ... 259
To the Secretary of State, detailing the personal and political causes which operate in preventing a favorable termination of their mission, 1793, May 5, ... 261
Explaining the causes which have induced them to defer bringing the Spanish Government to a decision upon the questions of boundary, Mississippi, &c. 1793, June 6, ... 271
Detailing the causes of delay in receiving a reply to their note on the subject of a Spanish commissary among the Indians, 1793, August 15, ... 274
To Mr. Gardoqui, respecting the conduct of Spanish agents among the Indians, 1793, May 26, ... 274
To Mr. Gardoqui, recalling the circumstances under which the assurance had been given by Mr. Gardoqui, that one Oliver had not been acting as an Indian commissary under the authority of Spain, &c. 1793, August 11, ... 276
To Secretary of State, that they have received his despatches by Mr. Blake; the negotiation remains in statu quo, 1793, September 29, ... 278
To Secretary of State, that the Spanish ministers have found pretexts to defer an answer to their formal note, 1793, October 22, ... 328
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Their representation to the Duke of Alcudia, on the subject of the conduct of the Spanish commissioners, 1793, October 20, ... 435
Recall the attention of the Duke of Alcudia to the subject of their notes of 1st and 20th October, 1793, November 12, ... 435
Require a more explicit avowal or disavowal of the sentiment expressed by Messrs. Jaudenes and Viar, that any act of hostility upon the Southern Indians might compromit peace with Spain, 1793, November 21, ... 436
Recapitulating the grounds of their application to be informed of the precise intentions of the Spanish Government; and rebutting the reasons set forth by the Duke of Alcudia, for waiving the desired explanation, 1793, December 7, ... 436
To M. de Gardoqui, transmitting a memorial on the subjects of territorial limits, and the right to navigate the Mississippi, 1793, December 7, ... 437, 438
To the Duke de la Alcudia, expressing their satisfaction at the just and friendly sentiments evinced by his note of the 18th December, 1793, December 22, ... 440
To the Secretary of State, indisposition of the Spanish Government to accede to the views of the American Government, concerning limits and the Mississippi; their instructions; their conduct under these circumstances, in expectation of further instructions; their perplexity from not receiving them; they prosecute the leading objects of the negotiation; little prospect of success; the situation of Spain in relation to Great Britain and France; an alliance with Spain, offensive and defensive, suggested by Gardoqui; the confidence to be reposed in his representations, 1794, January 7, ... 440
Of 1800, the second laid before Congress, ... 58
Purchase of lands from, ... 67
Are considering a proposition to solicit the citizenship of the United States, 1808, ... 72
Discussions relating to, ... 72
Satisfaction tendered, ... 74
Arrangements making satisfaction disavowed, ... 75
Evince a disposition to make reparation for depredations, ... 72
Liberation of, from Algerine captivity, ... 31
Personal injuries on, committed by France, ... 41
Prohibited from compromitting the neutrality of the United States, ... 62
Seized and plundered by Spanish officers, ... 66
Protected against Spanish aggressions, ... 66
Ransomed from Tripoli, ... 67
Compelled to bear arms against the United States, ... 85
Sent prisoners to England for trial, ... 85
Against Great Britain, for property, ... 30, 44, 45, 51
Against France, for property, ... 76, 79
Against Spain, for same, ... 30, 45
Against the United States, by British subjects, ... 45, 51
Of American citizens, for French spoliations, &c. stated by Mr. Skipwith, 1795, November 20, ... 753
Memorial of citizens of Philadelphia, respecting, 1797, ... 760
To the President of the United States, communicating his proceedings prohibitory of the departure of French privateers armed in American ports, 1793, November 23, ... 187
Public armed vessels hover on, ... 78
Protected by American vessels, ... 79
Continued, ... 26
Its political condition recommended to the consideration of Congress, 1800, ... 53
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Can be adequately protected only by a navy, ... 31
American, depredations committed on by French cruisers and agents, ... 31, 41, 44, 47
Its importance and exposedness, ... 41, 44
Cessation of privateering against, ... 51, 58
Prosperous state of, ... 50
How best promoted, ... 59
Restrictions upon, proposed to be counteracted, ... 60, 303
American, effect of the European war upon, ... 63
Aggressions upon, by persons holding foreign commissions, ... 66
Of the United States, interdicted by Great Britain, between ports not in amity with her, ... 70
Measures of belligerents to the injury of, ... 66, 70, 71, 76, 79, 86
Renewal of, tendered to France and Great Britain, ... 74
Interdict of, removed, ... 74
Revision of laws relating to, recommended, ... 74
Insecurity of, ... 76
Vexations of, by Northern Powers, ... 77, 79
Restrictions on, by France, ... 79, 302
Restrictions on, by Great Britain, ... 79, 301, 302
Restrictions on, by other European Powers, 1793 ... 302, 303
Evasions and infractions of laws regulating, ... 79
Regulations of, with Russia, ... 83
Of neutrals, vexations upon, ... 88
Of the United States, the desire of Great Britain to destroy, ... 88
How best protected, ... 104, 105, 106, 107, 108
Decree of France, encouraging commerce with the United States, 1789, ... 113, 115
With France, letter from Mr. Short, concerning, ... 120, 121
Treaty of, the stipulations of a good one with Spain, considered by Mr. Jefferson, 1792, ... 134
New restrictions upon, imposed by Great Britain, 1792, ... 135
Treaty of, with Spain, instructions of the American Secretary of State, respecting 1792, March 18, ... 256
Of the United States, report of the Secretary of State, on its privileges and restrictions in foreign countries, 1793, December 16, ... 300, 306
Report of the Secretary of State, on the depredations committed upon, by Great Britain, France, and Spain, 1794, March 2, ... 423, 424
Of France, how regulated, 1794, ... 679
And trade, whether they should be left free to individual enterprise, or be carried on by Government agents, 1794, October 18, ... 684
American, report of the Secretary of State, on the vexations and spoliations to which it is subjected in France, 1798, ... 748
Under the sixth and seventh articles of the treaty with Great Britain, ... 30, 44, 45, 51, 54
On boundary between the United States and Spain, ... 30, 44, 48
On the creation of a navy, 1791, ... 108
On the debt due to France, 1794, ... 468
On the terms of a treaty with Algiers, and the expediency of ratifying, 1796, February 29, ... 549
Same, 1797, January 16, ... 558
On Algerine prisoners, ... 133
Provision for, ... 22, 41, 44, 51, 54, 67, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78
To British subjects for captures, ... 45
Meeting of, a limited power in the Executive to postpone, recommended, ... 44
Remove permanently to Washington city, ... 53
The President refers to, the question of war with Tripoli, ... 58
Should be vigilantly guarded, ... 25
An amendment to, proposed by Mr. Jefferson, ... 65, 69, 73
To be supported as the cement of Union, ... 74
The frigate, her naval victory, ... 81
Their jurisdiction and functions, ... 14
Reimbursement of, recommended, for advances to American seamen, ... 45
Further provisions necessary in the act relating to, ... 45
Provide for the return of American seamen, ... 60
Banishment of, from Algiers, ... 81
A convention, concerning their jurisdiction concluded with France, ... 89
Assumed jurisdiction of those of France in the United States denied, 1793, ... 147
Of France, claim within the United States exclusive admiralty jurisdiction on French captures, ... 153
Remarks on the jurisdiction claimed by, 1797, ... 575
Circular to, on their assumed admiralty jurisdiction, 1793, ... 175, 575
Additional provision for, on the Barbary coast recommended, 1795, ... 470
Of America, the expediency of appointing American citizens only, 1794, ... 679
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Martens referred to by Mr. Hammond in support of the principle that provisions
are contraband, 1794, April 11, ... 432
Provisions, going to an enemy, whether contraband or not; the question discussed
between Mr. Hammond and Mr. Randolph, (Secretary of State) ... 449
And Adet and Pickering, ... 643, 649
The policy of the United States in regard to, ... 451
The law of, as declared by civilians, and exemplified in treaties, considered
by Mr. Pickering, 1797, ... 560
The exportation of, (flour and horses) from the United States objected to by
Mr. Adet, and defended by Mr. Pickering, subject to the belligerent's right
to capture, 1796, ... 645, 646, 649
Whether the sovereign Power is bound to prohibit its citizens from supplying, (page 647) or whether the right to sell is subject to Governmental regulation, ... 646, 647, 648, 649, 650
The exportation of, prohibited by the Swiss, ... 647
The exportation of, allowed formerly by them, ... 650
Their maritime jurisdiction to be defined or extended, ... 22
Their jurisdiction over prizes brought into the United States by French ships of war and privateers, and of captures within the limits of the United States, a cause of complaint by France, ... 582, 632
Murders committed on, ... 27
Disposed to arrest and deliver up offenders, ... 72
Seduced by the British, ... 85
State of, indicated by the terms of foreign loans, ... 19
Its preservation recommended, ... 41
Seizures of American, by the British, ... 70
Commerce infested by Danish, ... 77, 79
Ports necessary for American and foreign, ... 86
Captured by a Tripolitan, ... 60
Disorders in the, provision for, ... 17
Payment of the, ... 58, 60, 61, 62, 64, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 78, 79, 81
Domestic, subscription for, ... 17
Due by and to the several States, ascertained, ... 22
Increase of, by the purchase of Louisiana, ... 62
Means taken for final redemption, ... 65
Total reduction, during Mr. Jefferson's administration, ... 73
To France, proposal by Mr. Genet for its discharge, by furnishing military stores, ... 142
To British subjects before the peace, ... 44
Due in America to British subjects; how far legal obstacles were interposed to their collection, and at what time, and in what degree these obstacles were removed, § 20, &c. ... 207, 214
Of France, of May 9 and May 23, 1793, respecting neutral vessels, laden with provisions, bound to the ports of Great Britain, ... 244, 377, 749
Of March 26, 1793, respecting commercial intercourse with the West Indies, ... 245, 306
Subjecting neutral vessels to capture, confiscation, searches, &c. for not maintaining their neutrality, 1796, July 2, ... 577
Of 25th Brumaire, (15th November, 1794,) extending the list of contraband articles, and cancelling the stipulation of the treaty making merchandise free on board of neutral vessels, ... 752
Register of commission to the Leeward Islands, subjecting American vessels bound to English ports to capture, 27th Nov. year 5, ... 752
Of special agents of the Directory at Windward Islands, subjecting American vessels going to the Windward and Leeward Islands to capture, and renewing decree of 4th Nivose, 13th Pluviose, year 5, ... 759
Of 14th Nivose, revoking the decree of 25th Brumaire. By this revocation, enemy merchandise, on board neutral vessels, is exempted from capture, &c.; the ship protects all under its flag, 1795, ... 642
Special agency of the Executive Directory, subjecting contraband articles to capture, 1796, ... 662
Providing indemnities; ordering payment for St. Domingo supplies; that vessels of the United States, &c. shall be permitted to enter and depart; and that treaties and the law of nations shall be observed, 1794, (25 Brum.) Nov. 15, ... 689
Measures for, urged, ... 41, 44, 51, 71, 77
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To Mr. Morris; St. Domingo drafts; Little Cherub; decrees of May 9 and July 1, 1793, July 3, ... 370
Encloses the proceedings of the Executive Council in the case of ship Juno, 1793, July 19, ... 371
Relating to the brigantine Patty, Captain Pease, 1793, July 29, ... 372
Relating to the ship Laurens, Captain White, 1793, July 30, ... 372
Genet's punishable conduct; decree has passed suspending the sale of the Hope's cargo, 1793, October 10, ... 375
Facts, in relation to the ship Peggy, solicited; France compelled, by necessity, against her inclination, to resort to measures conflicting with neutral rights, in order to counteract the previous measures of the enemy; the decree of 9th May, provisional and temporary; the ship Laurens; amicable and just dispositions towards the United States professed, 1793, October 14, ... 376
Transmitting a letter of the Minister of Marine, relating to the ship Mary, 1793, October 17, ... 378
Replies to Mr. Monroe's, of March 15; announces the uniform opinion of the Directory, that the treaty with Great Britain was a breach of friendship; an abandonment of the principles of neutrality; a violation of tacit engagements; and an alteration of the treaty of 1778, requiring corresponding modifications on the part of France, 1796, July 7, ... 739
Communicates the French decrees, recalling Mr. Adet, and subjecting American vessels to capture, 1796, October 7, ... 745
Requests Mr. Monroe's letter of recall, and the credentials of his successor, 1796, December 2, ... 746
Appoints an interview for the formalities incident to the arrival of Mr. Monroe's successor, 1796, December 9, ... 746
Announces that the Executive Directory will not receive a minister of the United States until a reparation of grievances, 1796, December 11, ... 746
Appoints a time for his audience of leave, 1796, December 27, ... 747
Measures to prevent her depredations, ... 77
Recovery of, ... 86
Proposed repeal of, ... 58
Completion of collection of, ... 60
Proposed imposition of, 84
Renders an attention to health laws necessary, ... 66
The national Government remove to, ... 53
Congress exercise power over, ... 53
Proposition to establish a seminary of learning in, ... 77
On domestic distilled spirits, in what way the law was received and enforced, ... 16
On domestic spirits occasion an insurrection, ... 24
Protective, may be imposed for the protection of manufactures, ... 73
Constituting the Mediterranean fund concerning, ... 69
On tonnage, exemption from, the condition of a commercial treaty proposed by France, 1795, July 8, ... 641
The promotion of, by a national university recommended, ... 77
The public domain would defray the expense, ... 77
Continued, ... 72
Extension of, to fishing vessels, suggested, 1794, March 28, ... 429
Taken prisoners, sent to England for trial, ... 85
Against the territory of Spain, ... 68, 71
Safeguards against unlawful, ... 68
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Fort, reduction of, ... 87
For fortifications and military establishment, ... 61
For Naval department, laid before Congress, ... 61
War in, President's proclamation concerning, ... 21
Continuation of war in, ... 44, 51
Portentous state of, ... 45
General affairs of, considered by Mr. Morris, 1790, ... 125
In a state of peace, ... 57
Intercourse and friendship with, undisturbed, ... 63
General pacification in, ... 87
Impediments to the collection of, ... 19, 24
(See Duties.)
Great Britain denies the right of, ... 82
From the United States against Powers at peace, should be suppressed, ... 63
Military, can only be authorized by the sovereign authority, ... 154, 155
Proceedings of the Legislature of South Carolina and the minister of France respecting, 1793, ... 309, 310, 311
Against Spanish territories, suppressed, ... 68, 71
Pacific, of Lewis and Clarke, ... 69
Incurred on Executive responsibility, ... 71
Of the Missouri and the Columbia, by Lewis and Clarke, ... 69
Of the Red river, by Major Freeman, ... 69
Of the Mississippi, by Lieutenant Pike, ... 69
Concerning the depredations committed by France on the commerce of the United States, 1794, ... 431
On the subject of the attempt, by Captain Home, of the Africa, to seize him and his papers, when on his return to France, and the measures of the American Government on this occasion, 1797, ... 576
Has endeavored to prevent illegal armaments within the United States; complains of the proceedings against the French privateers and prizes, especially to those relating to the prize of the "Sans Pareil;" a letter unanswered, 1794, Aug. 25, ... 588
Complains of vexatious judicial proceedings against French prizes; of the detention of the Perseverance, and of an alleged outrage on board the Favorite; a remedy suggested, 1794, Oct. 17, ... 589
Reminds him of an unanswered letter, on the subject of citizen Talbot; the right of expatriation, 1794, Oct. 27, ... 592
The case of the privateer Favorite, 1794, Sept. 23, ... 598
That the Carmagnole (or Columbia) had been ordered to sea, 1794, Aug. 16, ... 600
States the causes for the return of two privateers, the Cornelia and Columbia, 1794, Aug. 21, ... 600
Denies that construction of the French treaty by which English ships of war were allowed to enter American ports; complains of instances in which, as he contends, that treaty was, at all events, violated, and French privateers oppressed, 1794, Sept. 18, ... 601
Transmits the answer of Governor Lee, concerning the detention of a French privateer, 1794, Oct. 1, 603
Adduces instances of the alleged violation of the treaty by British ships of war; complains of the negligence or tardiness of the Governors in the enforcement of the treaty, 1794, Oct. 6, ... 604
Reiterates instances of the violation of the treaty by the indulgences afforded British ships of war bringing prizes into the United States, 1795, Jan. 31, ... 605
Represents that the American Government have manifested partiality or weakness in its attempts to enforce an observance of neutral rights; instances the Thetis; desires, at least, a cold impartiality, 1795, May 2, ... 609
That no reply has been given to his letter, after the lapse of twenty-one days; captures by an English fleet in the waters of the United States, 1795, May 23, ... 609
Reply to Mr. Randolph's vindication; attempts to sustain his charge of predilection for England; imputes to the Executive a connivance at violations of the treaty by British ships of war; declares that the courts lend their aid to vexatious proceedings against French privateers and prizes; insists on his construction of the French treaty; and requests that the recent treaty with Great Britain may not be ratified until the arrival of his successor, 1798, June 8, ... 614
Tenders the services of France to effect an accommodation with Algiers, 1794, June 4, ... 639
Sets forth the attempt made by Captain Home, of the Africa, upon his person and papers, 1795, ... 662
Successful measures, ... 60
Further measures suggested, ... 62
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Abuses under, ... 77
Prevention of improper use of, suggested, ... 62, 76
Insults to, by Great Britain, complained of by minister of France, ... 164
National, of France, presented to the United States; correspondence on its disposition, 1796, ... 656, 657
Of the United States, improperly assumed, ... 45
Prostituted, to the injury of American commerce, ... 76, 77
Insults to, by Great Britain, complained of by the minister of France, ... 164
Presented by Mr. Monroe to French Convention, 1795, ... 698
The authority of Spain in, subverted, ... 77
A portion of, occupied by the United States, 1810, ... 77
Interposition of Great Britain in the affairs of, ... 78
Fund to conduct, recommended, ... 12
Compensation to officers in the Department of, 12
Documents communicated showing, ... 22
Liable to be affected by the cession of Louisiana, ... 60
Pacific state of, 1804, ... 63, 70
Change in, 1805, ... 66
Critical state of, ... 68, 70, 76
State of, with Britain and France, 1808, ... 71, 72
Documents communicated explanatory of, ... 72
Congress notified of a favorable change in, ... 74
Favorable indications delusive, ... 75
With European Powers, ... 75, 79, 81
Demand energy, wisdom, and unanimity, 1809, ... 76
General review of, 1795, ... 469
Political connexion with, to be avoided, ... 37
Provision for, ... 11
Policy observed in, ... 26, 64
Extension of, ... 41
And military defences necessary to preserve peace, ... 22
Whether adequate to the public exigences, ... 25
State of, ... 29
Of seaports and harbors recommended, ... 54
At certain places, deemed by Mr. Jefferson unnecessarily expensive, or unnecessary, 1801, ... 59
Appropriation for, recommended by Mr. Jefferson, 1805, ... 68
Progress of, at exposed points, ... 70, 72, 76
A system of, recommended to legislative consideration, 1807, ... 71
George reduced, ... 86
Malden taken, ... 86
Meigs besieged, ... 84
Meigs, reduction of, ... 86
Treaty with, respecting prizes brought into American ports observed, ... 22
Prizes of, captured in American waters, delivered up, ... 22
Prizes of, made by expeditions fitted out within the United States, to be restored, ... 22
Depredations committted by the cruisers of, noticed, 1796, ... 30, 41, 44, 47
Relations with, 1797-8, ... 40, 47
Refuses to receive an American minister, 1797, ... 40
Orders Mr. Pinckney, an American minister, from her territory, ... 40
new negotiation with, proposed, ... 40
Passes a decree contravening the treaty of amity, ... 41
Hostilities of, require defensive measures, ... 41
Mission to, ... 44
Failure of same, announced, ... 47
Authorizes depredations on neutral commerce, ... 47
Another mission to, ... 51
Negotiations resumed with, ... 54
Louisiana ceded to, ... 60
Cedes Louisiana to the United States, ... 61
Berlin and Milan, decrees of, ... 70, 71, 73
Adheres to her decrees, notwithstanding propositions for their repeal, ... 72
Notified of the revocation of the British orders in council, 1809, ... 74
Interdict on commerce with, 74
Adheres, notwithstanding, to her unjust restrictions and decrees, ... 75
Revokes her Berlin and Milan decrees, ... 76
Withholds indemnification for unjust seizures, ... 76, 79
Restrictions on trade with, ... 78
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Repeals the Berlin and Milan decrees, ... 81
A minister to, appointed to succeed Mr. Barlow, ... 84
Expected arrangements with, prevented by the decease of American minister, 1813, ... 84
Relations with, remain in statu quo, 1813, ... 85
A convention with, concerning consuls, concluded and transmitted, ... 89
Letter from the King of, to the President and Congress, 1790, ... 109
Treaty with, complaints of its violation by the United States, and a report upon its construction, by the Secretary of State, 1791, ... 109, 110, 111
Letter from American charge at Paris, concerning, 1790, ... 120
Letter from the King of, announcing his acceptance of the constitution, 1792, ... 133
The consuls of, assume admiralty jurisdiction in the United States, 1793, ... 147
Correspondence with the minister of, respecting liquidation of debt, purchase of arms, sale of prizes, fitting out privateers, and expeditions to St. Domingo, 1793, ... 141 to 188
Decrees of, May 9 and May 23, 1793, ... 244, 377
Decrees of, March 26, 1793, ... 245
Effects of her decree of July 22, 1793, ... 312
Her act of navigation, and a report respecting, communicated, 1794, Jan. 28, ... 316, 320 to 323
State of, in 1792, from public journals, ... 340
The King of, executed, ... 348
Decree of, relating to the commerce and navigation of the United States, 1793, February 18, ... 362
Decree of, exempting American vessels from duties, &c. 1793, March 26, ... 363
Decree of, exempting the vessels of the United States from the decree of 9th May, 1793, May 23, ... 365
Decree ordering the liberation of the Little Cherub, and suitable indemnity, 1793, July 1, ... 371
Decree of, exempting American vessels from the decree of May 9, 1793, July 1, ... 371
A summary of her aggressions upon American commerce, 1794, March 2, ... 424
The minister of, applies for an advance of the sum due by the United States to France, for the benefit of the St. Domingo refugees, 1794, March 1, ... 427
Report of a committee on her application for advances, 1794, April 17, ... 447
Address of the Committee of Public Safety of, to the citizens and Congress of the United States, 1794, ... 447
Hostile movements in the United States, excited by her against the territory of Spain, 1794, ... 454, 460
The construction put on one clause of the treaty with, referred to, 1794, ... 465
Debt due to, report of a committee concerning, 1794, June 6, ... 468
Address of the Committee of Safety of, to Congress, 1796, January 4, ... 527
Has succeeded in forming treaties with Prussia, Spain, Duke of Tuscany, and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, 1796, March 11, ... 550
Message and documents, showing the critical state of our relations with, 1797, ... 559
Her complaints against the United States, stated and reviewed by Mr. Pickering, Secretary of State, 1797, January 16, ... 559
Her specific complaints, stated to Mr. Monroe, 1796, May 2, ... 658, 659
Privateers and prizes of, the cases in which they were brought before the judicial
tribunals of the United States, 1797, ... 563 to 565
And the United States; how far the latter was indebted to the former for national independence, reviewed and considered, 1797, ... 569, 579, 572, 573
Measures of the court of, in relation to American independence, the navigation of the Mississippi, the fisheries, and the Southern limits, ... 571, 572
Decree of her Executive Directory, that neutral powers shall suffer from France the same treatment as to capture, confiscation, &c. which they permit Great Britain to inflict, 1796, July 2, ... 577
Tenders her services to effect an accommodation with the Dey of Algiers, 1794, June 4, ... 639
Propositions of, for a liberal commercial treaty with the United States, 1794, June 30, ... 640
Convention of, their reception of, and address to, Mr. Monroe, 1794, June 10, ... 674
Desires a loan from the United States to aid in the war against Great Britain, 1794, ... 685, 686
Complaints of, against the United States, 1796, ... 658, 732
Examined by Mr. Randolph, 1795, June 1, ... 705
Desires a political connexion with the United States, and holds out commercial advantages, (instructions to Genet,) 1793, ... 708
Declares, by her minister, that she considers the treaty with Great Britain as an alteration of the treaty of 1788, an abandonment of neutrality, a violation of tacit engagements, and a breach of friendship, 1796, July, 7, ... 739
Refuses to receive a minister, appointed by the United States, until a reparation of grievances, 1796, December 11, ... 746
Report of the Secretary of State on her hostile depredations and decrees against American commerce, 1798, February 28, ... 748
The violation of this principle urged against British order of 1793, June 8, ... 242
Number to be kept in service, ... 67
Additional, fitting out, ... 75, 76, 81
British ship attacks one of the American, ... 78
Essex, captured, ... 87
Incursions on the, 13
Defence of the western, ... 16, 29, 69
War on the, ... 22
Spanish garrisons retain posts on, ... 44
Movements on western, ... 68, 69
Force embodied to protect the northwestern, ... 79
Special corps for protection, ... 81
Relief of the, ... 85
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Character and sentiments of, ... 262, 263
Propositions by, ... 135
Letter from, to Mr. Jay; the disinterested liberality of the King of Spain towards the United States; the United States have no pretension to the navigation of the Mississippi; proposes certain commercial stipulations, 1786, May 25, ... 249
To Mr. Carmichael, fails to renew in writing his verbal declaration that Olivier had not been employed as a Spanish Indian agent, 1793, August 1, ... 275
Suggests a liberal commercial intercourse, and a national compact with France, 1793, May 23, ... 147
Instructions to, from his Government, 1793, ... 708
Concerning the purchase of arms, selling prizes, fitting out armaments, and the surrender of the Grange, 1793, May 27, ... 149
On the right of arming French vessels in the United States, 1793, June 8, ... 151
Complains of the arrest of citizens Henfield and Singletary, 1793, ... 151
The interposition of judicial officers to prevent the sale of French prizes, and the sailing of French privateers, 1793, June 14, ... 152
Defends the propriety of a military expedition within the United States against Great Britain, 1793, June 22, ... 155
Requests to be informed of the precise debt due to France, that assignments of it, in payment of produce, may be given, 1793, ... 156
On the non-payment of bills for St. Domingo supplies, 1793, ... 157
On the seizure of a British privateer; urges watchfulness to prevent the fitting out of armed vessels hostile to France in American ports, 1793, June 25, ... 159
Agrees to a proposed arrangement concerning prizes, 1793, June 26, ... 160
Requests the liberation of a French armed ship, 1793, ... 163
Respecting the French armed ship, "Le Petit Democrat," ... 163
Requests the Government to order from an American port the English privateer Jane, ... 163
Demands the interposition of the American Government for the protection of American rights, and the security of the American flag against British aggression, 1793, July 9, ... 164
Remonstrates again against the violation, by Great Britain, of the neutral rights of the United States, 1793, July 25, ... 165
His recall requested, 1793, ... 172
To Mr. Jefferson; defends himself; criminates Mr. Morris; makes distinct and personal allegations against the President and officers of Government; and appeals to the popular will, 1793, Sept. 18, ... 172
Requests the arrest of French citizens conspiring in the United States against France, 1793, Sept. 6, ... 177
Communicates a decree of the French Convention respecting their interference with other Powers, 1793, Sept. 24, ... 178
On the danger to American liberty from the machinations of foreign Powers, and explaining his instructions to Citizen Moissonier, 1793, Nov. 15, ... 183
On the tenure by which consuls hold their commissions, 1793, ... 184
On the subject of restoring French prizes, or making indemnification for captures made by French privateers within the jurisdiction of the United States, 1793, Sept. 14, ... 184
Declares that he had no power to enforce the required restoration of vessels captured by French privateers within the jurisdiction of the United States, 1793, Nov. 29, ... 185
Requests the acceptance by the Government of his drafts, in anticipation of future payments of the debt to France, 1793, Nov. 11, ... 185
Renews his last application, 1793, Nov. 14, ... 185
To Governor Clinton, acquiesces in his request to cause a French privateer, fitted out in American ports, to be disarmed, 1793, Nov. 23, ... 186
To Mr. Jefferson, requests the co-operation of the American Government to prevent the departure of emigrants to St. Domingo, and the exportation thither of munitions of war, 1793, Nov. 29, ... 187
Encloses the French decrees of May 9th and 23d, and intimates that, unless the United States resist the British provision order of 8th June, the first decree will be allowed to take effect, 1793, Sept. 27, ... 243
To Thomas Jefferson, transmits the French decree of March 26, 1793, and proposes the opening a negotiation for a commercial convention on liberal principles, 1793, Sept. 30, ... 241
Disavows the allegations that he was engaged in organizing an armed force within the United States, to act against the enemies of France; but acknowledges that he had granted military commissions to American citizens for that purpose, 1793, Dec. 25, ... 311
His recall acceded to; his conduct disapproved, 1794, Jan. 20, ... 314
Transmits an application of the commission of Guadaloupe for men, ammunition, and provisions, 1793, ... 323
Complains of the violation of her neutrality and sovereignty by the combined squadrons of Great Britain and Spain, 1794, ... 346
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Permanent seat of, located, ... 16
Permanent seat of, in readiness, ... 51
Permanent seat of, removal to, ... 53
Republican, that the will of the majority shall prevail is its vital principle, ... 27
Science of, the American youth should be indoctrinated in, ... 31
Success attending the American experiment in, ... 32
The interruption of its regular deliberation and action reprehended, ... 35
Danger to, from frequent innovations in its principles, ... 36
Danger to, from the spirit of party, ... 36
Danger to, from the spirit of encroachment, ... 36
Religous principle its strongest support, ... 36
The principles of a good, sketched, ... 57
Expenditures of, proposed to be diminished, ... 58
Financial operations of the, ... 64
Whether treasonable attempts against, are sufficiently provided for by the constitution and the laws, ... 71
Insulted by Mr. Genet, ... 165
Requests Mr. Genet's recall, ... 167
Disrespect to, shown by the British minister, ... 75
Suspends intercourse with the British minister, ... 75
Executes treaty respecting western posts, ... 30
Boundary between the possessions of, and the United States, proceedings respecting, ... 30, 44, 48
Losses and damages sustained by her subjects, ... 45
Directs the withdrawal of a commissioner under the seventh article of the treaty of 1794, ... 51
Negotiations with, respecting the execution of the treaty of 1794, ... 54
Abolishes countervailing duties, ... 60
Convention with, for adjusting the northeastern boundary, ... 62
Payments by, under convention of 1802, ... 62, 64, 67
Relations with, ... 68, 70, 74, 77
Violates neutral and national rights of the United States, ... 70
Rejects an overture to repeal the embargo, on condition that she shall repeal her orders, ... 72
Insists, as the condition of the repeal of her orders, that British manufactures owned by neutrals shall be admitted into ports shut against them, ... 78
Her novel and illegitimate blockades, ... 77
Denies the revocation of the Berlin and Milan decrees, ... 78
Virtual war by, on American commerce, ... 79
Evinces increasing hostility to the United States, ... 87
Her extravagant views and ambition, ... 87
Orders in council of, ... 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 87, 88, 240, 430
Inadmissible preliminary adhered to by, ... 82, 85
Her seizures and condemnations, ... 70
A minister and envoy extraordinary appointed to, ... 70
An abortive treaty with, formed, ... 70
Her vessel of war Leopard attacks the United States' frigate Chesapeake, ... 70
Aggressions within the jurisdiction of the United States committed by her naval officers, ... 70
Declines making reparation for the attack on the Chesapeake, ... 72
Threatens retaliation for the non-importation act, ... 78
Her persevering wrongs demand measures of greater energy, ... 79
Makes satisfaction for the attack on the Chesapeake, ... 74
Agrees to send special envoy to conclude differences, and forms, by her minister, arrangements for rescinding the orders in council, ... 74
Disavows the arrangement made by her minister, ... 75
A ship of war of, encounters an American frigate, ... 78
Recalls one minister and appoints a successor, ... 75
The vessels of, interdicted the harbors and waters of the United States, ... 70
Commercial intercourse with, renewed, ... 74
Is notified of the act concerning commercial intercourse, ... 76
Is apprized of the revocation of the French decrees, ... 77, 78
Applied to for the recall of her minister for his misconduct, ... 75
Commerce with, renewed and interdicted, ... 74, 75
War declared against, ... 80
Terms proposed to, at the commencement of the war, 1812, ... 81
Employs Indians as allies, ... 80, 82, 83, 85
Attempts to disorganize the American Government, ... 82
Denies the right of expatriation, ... 82
Wages against the United States a barbarous species of warfare, marked with plunder and conflagration, ... 83, 85, 86, 88
Threatens to punish capitally natives of Great Britain naturalized in the United States, ... 85
Imprisons American officers, ... 86
Violates established usages of war, ... 86, 88
Destructive measures of, against American towns, ... 86
Forces the United States to severe retaliatory measures, ... 85, 86
Russia proffers her mediation, ... 83
Commissioners appointed to treat with, under the mediation of Russia, ... 83
Declines the proffered mediation of Russia, 1813, ... 84, 85
Defeats of forces of, ... 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
Her frigate Guerriere captured by the Constitution, ... 81
Her sloop of war Peacock taken by the Hornet, ... 83
Her brig of war Boxer captured by the Enterprise, ... 85
Defeat of her fleet on lake Erie, ... 85
Defeat of her squadron on lake Ontario, ... 85
Defeat of her squadron on lake Champlain, ... 87
Her sloops of war Epervier and Reindeer captured, ... 88
Defeat of her forces at York, ... 84, 86
Defeat of her forces on the Thames, ... 85
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Her forces make a successful inroad to Washington and Alexandria, and a rapid retreat, ... 87
Differences with, respecting the eastern boundary, 1790, ... 90, 99
Message and documents showing the measures adopted to promote peace, commerce, and friendship with, 1791, ... 121 to 127
Her policy and measures towards the United States detailed and explained by Mr. Morris, 1790, ... 126
Report of committee [H. R.] respecting the commercial restrictions of, 1791, ... 128
Message and documents respecting an act of Parliament prohibiting importations into, in foreign or American vessels, ... 135
Documents communicated, showing her acts restrictive of our trade in corn and provisions, 1793, ... 142
Negotiations with the minister of, preliminary to the formation of a commercial treaty, ... 189 to 238
Order in council of, dated June 8, 1793, prohibiting the corn trade, ... 240
Negotiates a truce with Algiers in behalf of Portugal and Holland, 1793, ... 295, 296
Further negotiations with, communicated, 1794, Jan. 22, ... 315
Admiralty of, passes an order mitigating the restrictions upon neutral commerce, 1793, Sept. 3, ... 315
Additional documents respecting, communicated, 1794, Feb. 24, ... 327
A summary of her aggressions upon American commerce, 1792, March 2, ... 424
Depredations by her authority on the commerce of the United States in the West Indies, 1794, March 1, ... 428
Instructions of, subjecting to capture the produce of any French colony found on board of any ship, 1793, Nov. 6, ... 430
Modifies the instructions of November 6, 1793, 1794, Jan. 8, ... 431
The serious aspect of relations with, occasions the mission of Mr. Jay, ... 447
Remonstrance by Mr. Randolph against her instructions of 8th June, 1793, 1794, May 1, ... 450
Her alleged excitement of the "Six Nations" to hostilities commented on and explained, 1794, ... 461, 463
Treaty with, concluded by Mr. Jay, communicated, 1795, June 8, ... 470 to 520
An article explanatory of the third article of Mr. Jay's treaty with, 1796, ... 551, 552
3Circular to, requesting their prompt enforcement of the treaties with France, 1794, October 10, ... 604
Instructions to, for the enforcement of the neutral rights and obligations of the United States, 1794, April 16, ... 608
it was not the desire of Great Britain to inflict injury on, or impress American seamen, 1794, August 1, ... 481
His reply to Mr. Jay respecting his reception, 1794, October, ... 502
His letter to Mr. Jay respecting the claims of a particular class of British creditors, 1794, November 19, ... 501
An appropriation for, unexpended, ... 62
Advantages expected from, as a means of defence, ... 64
The building of, recommended, 1805, ... 67, 68
The expediency of increasing their number, submitted, ... 71
Measures for manning proposed, ... 71
To be stationed at New York, New Orleans, and the Chesapeake, ... 71
One hundred and three built in 1808, ... 71
Laid up in 1809, ... 74
Relating to their defence and fortification, ... 29, 41, 54, 59, 67, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77
The fortification of certain, proposed to be arrested, 1801, ... 58, 59
Infested by piratical cruisers, 1805, ... 66, 78
Measures taken to defend, ... 70
British and foreign armed vessels interdicted, ... 70
Seamen recommended to be formed into a special militia for their defence, ... 71
Defeats the British forces on the Thames, ... 85
States that he is authorized to commence the negotiation of, but not to conclude a commercial treaty, 1791, December 6, ... 189
That he conceives himself authorized by his public character as a plenipotentiary, to enter upon the negotiation of a commercial treaty, without having special powers or instructions, 1791, December 14, ... 189
Concurs in the mode proposed by Mr. Jefferson to discuss the contested points, of the British treaty, 1791, December 19, ... 193
Enumerates the infractions alleged to have been committed by the United States, of the treaty of 1783, relating to confiscated property not restored; debts due by the American debtor to the British creditor, not made recoverable; and legislative acts of different States contravening the rights of the American royalists and British subjects, 1792, March 5, ... 193, 200
In reply to Mr. Jefferson's request to be furnished with the evidence of certain legislative acts and judicial decisions, referred to in Mr. Hammond's memorial of March 5, ... 200
Asks an explanation of one part of Mr. Jefferson's memoir of May 29, 1792, ... 237
That, before replying to Mr. Jefferson's memoir of May 29, 1792, he awaited instructions from his Government, 1793, June 20, ... 238
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Transmits British order in council of June 8, 1793, 1793, September 12, ... 240
To Mr. Randolph, that he has not yet received the definitive instructions which he had expected to obtain, 1794, February 21, ... 328
Vindicating the instructions of June 8, 1793; ancient law of nations; conduct of France, 1794, April 11, ... 432, 449
In justification of the conduct of Great Britain towards the Indians, 1794, May 22, ... 462
Attention to the state of, ... 66
Reimbursement of loans in, ... 22
Captain of the Constitution, captures the British frigate Guerriere, ... 81
Authorized to negotiate with the Algerines for peace and ransom, 1793, March 21, ... 294
Letters from, to the Secretary of State, ... 295
Letters from, transmitting documents, showing the disposition of the Dey of Algiers, and Algerine depredations on American commerce, 1793, ... 413
That, in his opinion, a naval force is indispensable to the protection of commerce and the maintenance of neutrality, 1793, Dec. 25, ... 418
His instructions to Robert Montgomery, American consul at Alicant, 1793, ... 419
Letter from, to the Secretary of State, transmitting documents, and his final proceedings on the subject of the Algerine captives, 1794, Jan. 30, ... 420
To the Secretary of State; application for the reimbursement of advances by the Swedish consul; terms on which a treaty with Algiers may be made, 1794, Sept. 17, ... 529
Protection against, ... 82
Conferences by Mr. Morris respecting, ... 123, 124
Occasion for, withdrawn, ... 87
Expenses for their return, 1792, ... 131
(See Seamen.)
Of President Adams, ... 38, 39
Due by France--List of claimants of, made by Mr. Skipwith, American Consul, 1795, Nov. 20, ... 753
Memorial respecting, by citizens of Philadelphia, 1797, ... 760
Cession to, of four miles square, including Salt springs, ... 60
Militia and regulars embodied, ... 7
Measures to prevent or terminate their hostilities, ... 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 92
Policy towards, dictated by humanity and justice, ... 16, 19, 22, 62, 65, 67, 74, 76
Treaties with, (see Treaties.) ... 16, 17, 27, 30, 62, 64, 67
Agencies to the, ... 19
Civilization of, ... 16, 19, 22, 28, 58, 61, 65, 67, 73, 76, 81
Trade with, ... 19, 20, 22, 25, 28, 30, 62
Creeks and Cherokees, relief afforded to, ... 22
Progress of the war with, ... 25
Murders committed on the Creek, ... 27
War with, terminated by treaties, ... 27
Prosecutions for violence against, ... 22
The protection of, against lawless aggressions, recommended, ... 19, 28
Execution of the law promoting trade with, ... 29
Measures taken to ensure their friendship, ... 30
Rights of, by treaty, protected, ... 30
Attempts by foreigners to excite them to hostilities, ... 44
Efforts to improve and civilize successful, ... 58, 62, 67, 72
Efforts to improve and civilize, proposed to be continued, ... 74
Measures taken to fix boundaries and preserve peace with, ... 60
Re-purchase of lands from, ... 60
Of Louisiana, measures suggested to promote their improvement and secure their friendship, ... 63
Treaties with Delawares and Piankeshaws, ... 64
Obstacles which prevent or retard their improvement, ... 65
Instruction and protection of, ... 65
Their improvement in agriculture, ... 67, 72
Deputations from the Missouri and other, ... 67
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Relations with, still pacific, ... 70, 72, 76, 77
Precautions taken to guard against their hostile intentions, ... 70
Suspicious movements among the Northwestern, ... 70
Southern, are introducing husbandry and household manufactures, 1808, ... 72
Creeks, consider the expediency of becoming citizens of the United States, ... 72
Menacing combinations among them, ... 79
Maintenance of public peace with, ... 72, 73, 76, 77
Employed by Great Britain in waging war, ... 80
Relations with, in 1812, ... 81
Murders and depredations by the Wabash, ... 79
Great Britain employs, against the United States, ... 80, 82, 83
Employed by the United States against Great Britain, ... 85, 87
Alienation of, from the enemy, ... 85
Creek, Spain interposes in their favor, 1792, ... 138
The conduct of the United States towards, and the measures of Spanish agents to excite them to hostilities, ... 265
Treaties of friendship between Spain and the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and other Indians, ... 278, 279, 280
The interference of Spanish agents with, ... 280, 288
Plan for promoting their civilization by Monsieur Duchesne, 1792, ... 351
Additional, to commanders of British ships of war and privateers, to prevent neutral trade, 1793,_June 8, ... 240
To British ships and privateers, against neutral commerce, 1793, Nov. 6, ... 430
From the American Government to Mr. Jay, 1794, May 6, ... 472
To the Governors of the States to enforce the observance of the seventeenth article of the treaty of commerce with France, 1794, Oct. 10, ... 601
To the Governors of the States, to prevent the ships of war of any belligerent from using the waters of the United States as stations for the purpose of making captures, 1794, April 16, ... 608
To American appellants in British prize courts, 1794, ... 494
Measures to prevent, ... 19
In Pennsylvania, its origin, extent, and suppression, ... 22, 24, 25, 28
Whether power ought not to be given to prevent, ... 68
Collection of, completed, ... 60
System of, recommended, ... 84
With St. Domingo, renewed, ... 51
With foreign nations, an account rendered of the administration of the fund provided for, 1792, ... 137
Encouragement of native, ... 12
On the subject of the Indians, 1793, June 12, ... 264
Charge the United States with fomenting hostilities between the Chickasaws and Creeks, the allies of Spain, for the purpose of operating on Spain, 1793, June 18, ... 264
Ask the interposition of the President to correct the misrepresentation of a public newspaper; disclaim any hostile intentions on the part of Spain, 1793, July 11, ... 216
Explanatory and apologetic of their letter of 18th June, 1793, July 13, ... 268
Enclose extracts from the Governor of Louisiana and Florida, ... 269
Enclose an extract from a letter from Carondelet, respecting Indians, 1793, Dec. 8, ... 305
Justify the conduct of Carondelet, and assert the exclusive right of Spain to navigate the Mississippi, 1793, Dec. 26, ... 308
Communicate the declaration of war by Spain against France, 1794, March 12, ... 425
That hostile expeditions are fitting out, within the United States, against the possessions of Spain, 1794, March 5, ... 426
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, reports on the consular convention, ... 89, 90
Report of, with a plan for adjusting the difference with Great Britain, respecting the eastern boundary, ... 94, 96
Appointed to negotiate with the charge of Spain, ... 248
His representation to Congress, respecting Spanish pretensions, 1786, August 17, ... 250
Nominated minister to England, 1794, April 16, ... 447
His commission and letters of credence, ... 470
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To Mr. Randolph; his arrival at Falmouth, 1794, June 9, ... 475
His interview with Lord Grenville, and first impressions favorable, 1794, June 23, ... 476
Appearances favorable, 1794, June 26, ... 476
His conferences with Lord Grenville, who appeared liberal, candid, and temperate; his presentation to the King and Queen; the sentiments expressed by the former were liberal and proper; addressed a note to Lord G. on West India captures; his desire to obtain the confidence of the British Government by sincerity, candor, truth, and prudence; under what circumstances formal discussions of disputed points proper, 1794, July 6, ... 476
Has been solicitous to receive information concerning the embargo; the public sentiment favorable to an amicable settlement of differences; affairs doubtful, 1794, July 9, ... 478
Has conferred with Lord Grenville respecting Simcoe's expedition; it was agreed that things should remain in statu quo; new arrangements in the ministry occasioned some delay, 1794, July 12, ... 479
Transmits a letter from Lord Grenville to Mr. Hammond, on the subject of the arrangement noticed in his of the 12th. He has received the spoliation papers, 1794, July 16, ... 479
Importunity of British creditors; desires precise information on the laws interrupting or preventing the recovery of British debts; the necessity of moderation and caution in the prosecution of his negotiation; Mr. Randolph's
correspondence with Mr. Hammond; nothing decisive, 1794, July 30, ... 480
To Mr. Randolph; ground to believe that indemnities will be made for spoliations; affairs more promising, 1794, July 31, ... 480
Transmits his representation to Lord Grenville on the subject of spoliations, and Lord G.'s reply; the conduct of Lord G. uniformly candid and conciliatory, 1794, August 2, ... 480
To Lord Grenville; his representation on the subject of irregular captures of American vessels by British cruisers, and improper condemnations by British tribunals; and also on impressments, 1794, July 30, ... 481
To Mr. Randolph; his prospects not discouraging; in a few days he will be able to speak with more certainty, 1794, August 8, ... 482
Transmits an order of the King in Council, allowing appeals to American claimants, 1794, August 9, ... 182
The negotiation progresses, but the result still doubtful, 1794, August 21, ... 483
Suggests the appointment of an agent to prosecute American claims for indemnities, 1794, August 23, ... 484
States the result of numerous conferences: the points urged; the reciprocal propositions; one of which, by Lord Grenville, was the alteration of the Northwestern boundary; the projects submitted and discussed; the notes which passed thereupon between Lord G. and Mr. Jay; instructions to American ship owners, prepared by Sir William Scott and Dr. Nichol, 1794, September 13, ... 485
Subjects still under consideration: Mississippi boundary and East India trade; an agreement probable, on the posts and debts; good temper, patience, and candor, on our part, still necessary, to promote the objects of the negotiation, 1794, September 18, ... 496
The negotiation still continues; he and Lord Grenville are endeavoring to form the two projects into one; he asks precise directions respecting his employing counsel, at the expense of the United States, in prize cases, 1794, October 2, ... 498
The projet of a treaty; difficulties have appeared, been discussed, removed; some remain; the new boundary not pressed; points agreed on; Indian trade; posts; his letter respecting his reception, 1794, October 29, ... 500
The conclusion of a treaty rendered almost certain, 1794, November 5, ... 501
A treaty has been agreed on, 1794, November 17, ... 502
Transmits the treaty; difficulties; mutual concession necessary; its general advantages; remarks explanatory of different provisions; reasons preventing the immediate surrender of the posts; free trade to the respective citizens and subjects by land; boundary; indemnities; debts; sequestration; East and West India trade; contraband; provisions; prohibition to sell prizes; existing stipulations with France recognized, 1794, November 19, ... 503
Transmits a letter from Lord Grenville respecting the claims of certain persons having rights of remainder, 1794, November 19, ... 504
To the Secretary of State; the treaty has been signed; he sends duplicates; advantages which may be expected in extending commercial intercourse; the general disposition in England friendly; the policy of the United States; the Canada articles, 1794, November 21, ... 504
Acknowledging attentions; his intention to embark for America; suggests the expediency of instructing Mr. Pinckney to make the exchange, 1794, December 10, ... 509
Relating to the prosecution of the appeals, the security for costs, and instructions to the agent, 1795, January 7, ... 512
Further details respecting the prosecution of appeals, the choice of Proctors, and the agency of Mr. Bayard, 1795, January 31, ... 515
That he had notified the American minister at Paris that the treaty he had concluded contained a stipulation, "that nothing in it shall be construed, or operate contrary to existing treaties between the United States and other Powers." 1795, February 2, ... 516
Transmits a letter from Mr. Monroe, requesting a copy of the treaty, to be communicated to the French Government, with his reply, stating his reasons for not doing, so until ratified, or authorized by his Government, 1795, February 5, ... 517
Encloses a copy of a letter to Mr. Monroe, to whom Mr. Trumbull was authorized
to communicate the contents of the treaty, 1794, February 19, ... 518
Relating to his expenditures, 1795, March 5, ... 518
He embarked the 12th April, and had just landed, 1795, May 28, ... 519
That his health would not enable him to repair to Philadelphia, 1795, June 1, ... 519
He replies to certain queries, and explains briefly some points in the treaty, 1795, June 1, ... 519
Same, 1805, ... 63
Desires to assuage the violence and bitterness of party, ... 56, 59
Substitutes a written message at the commencement of each session for a speech, ... 57
(See Message.)
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Proposes a general reduction of civil and military expenses, ... 58
Proposes to reduce the number, and curtail the expenses of fortifications, ... 59
Proposes to leave commerce, navigation, manufactures, and agriculture, free to individual enterprise, ... 59
Recommends a revision of the judicial system, ... 59
Proposes a modification of the naturalization law, ... 59
Proposes general rules of foreign and domestic policy, ... 61
Urges a pacific, impartial, just, independent, and neutral policy, ... 62, 63
Reviews his foreign and domestic policy, his principles and his acts, 1805, ... 64, 65
Looks to the Divine Being to overrule his efforts for the public good, ... 66
Attributes the successful administration of affairs to the ability of his associates, and the character of the people, ... 65
His opinions concerning the restraints, the licentiousness, and the freedom of the press, ... 65
Discloses the objects of his administration, ... 65
Enters on his second term, ... 65, 66
Recommends measures of defence, and preparation for war, ... 67
The classification of the militia, ... 67
The building of gunboats and seventy-four gun ships, ... 67
Renews the expression of his desire to administer the Executive trust faithfully, ... 67, 68
Recommends appropriations for fortifications, 1805, ... 68
Suggests a modification of municipal law, so as to prevent insurrections, ... 68
Recommends measures to suppress the slave trade, ... 69
Recommends the repeal of the duty on salt, and the further continuance of the Mediterranean fund, ... 69
Proposes an amendment to the constitution, and the application of surplus revenue to education, roads, rivers, and canals, ... 69
Suggests proper objects for the application of surplus revenue, ... 69, 73
Tenders his grateful acknowledgment for the legislative support of the measures of his administration, ... 73
Report on Mediterranean trade, 1791, ... 104
Report and letters from, respecting an act of Parliament, excluding America from the carrying trade, 1792, ... 135
Letter of, to Genet, May 15, 1793, on the rights of neutrals, and the illegal belligerent acts committed by the agents of France in the United States, ... 147
Reply to Mr. Genet, on illegal armaments, 1793, June 3, ... 150
On the arrest of Henfield and Singleton, American citizens, 1793, ... 151
On illegal expeditions, 1793, June 17, ... 154
On the payment of the debt to France, in anticipation, 1793, ... 156
States the compliance of Government with his request to be furnished with a statement of the French debt, 1793, ... 157
In reply to the note of Mr. Genet on the subject of bills for St. Domingo supplies, ... 158
That a British privateer has been seized for prosecution, 1793, ... 159
Respecting illegal armaments, ... 160
On the subject of foreign vessels captured by French privateers, within the jurisdiction of the United States, 1793, June 23, ... 160
Respecting the ship William, captured by a French privateer, 1793, June 29, ... 161
States the detention ot certain French privateers, until the determination of the governament shall be made known, 1793, ... 163
In reply to the application of Mr. Genet to enforce the neutral rights of the United States, 1793, July 24, ... 166
Declares the determination of the United States to cause prizes made by French cruisers, fitted out from their territory, to be restored, or indemnification to be made; and to look to France for reimbursement, 1793, Aug. 7, ... 167
To Mr. Morris, reviewing the conduct, pretensions, and expressions of Citizen Genet towards the Executive and Government of the United States, 1793, Aug. 16, ... 167
Desires him to request the recall of the French minister, 1793, Aug. 23, ... 172
To Mr. Hammond; states the principles on which the United States will make compensation or restitution for British vessels illegally captured, 1793, Sept. 5, ... 174
To Mr. Genet; requires that no obstruction shall be interposed by him to the service of judicial process, 1793 Sept. 9, ... 175
Circular letter from, to the French Consuls in the United States, 1793, Sept. 7, ... 175
To Mr. Hammond, in reply to his memorials concerning the assumed jurisdiction of French consuls, and indulgences extended to French public vessels, 1793, Sept. 9, ... 176
To the Resident of the Netherlands, on the same subject of complaint, 1793, Sept. 9, ... 176
To Mr. Genet; that the Government have no power to order the arrest of persons charged with criminal acts or designs against France; but will enforce the laws of the United States against illegal expeditions, 1793, Sept. 12, ... 177
To Mr. Hamilton; encloses an application of the French minister, that French vessels driven in by distress, shall be relieved from tonnage duties, 1793, Sept. 12, ... 178
To Mr. Genet; encloses an exequatur for a French consul, 1793, Oct. 2, ... 178
To a vice consul of France; revokes his exequatur and commission, 1793, Oct. 3, ... 178
To Mr. Genet; informing him of the measures adopted towards a French vice consul, 1793, ... 182
To Mr. Morris, in Paris, respecting the unjustifiable conduct of a French vice consul, 1793, ... 182
To Mr. Genet; intimates the dissatisfaction of the American Government at certain defensive measures proposed to be adopted by a French consul, within American jurisdiction, 1793, ... 182
On the extent of the maritime jurisdiction claimed by the United States, 1793, Nov. 8, ... 183
Requests the production of testimony as to captures within the jurisdiction of the United States, 1793, Nov. 10, ... 183
On the power of the President to recognize, admit, or interdict foreign agents, and returning consular commissions, for informality in their address, 1793, Nov. 22, ... 184
Inquires whether certain French prizes had been restored, pursuant to the President's determination, 1793, Sept. 22, ... 185
Encloses a report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of acceptances, by the American Government of citizen Genet's draughts, 1793, Nov. 24, ... 186
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To Mr. Hammond, British minister, on the inexecution of the 7th article of the treaty of 1783; and a new commercial treaty, 1791, Nov. 20, ... 188
That he is ready to enter upon the negotiation of a commercial treaty, 1791, Dec. 13, ... 189
Specifies the violations, on the part of Great Britain, of the treaty of 1783, 1791, Dec. 15, ... 190
Asks to be furnished with certain legislative acts of the several States, referred to in his memorial of March 5, 1792, March 30, ... 200
In reply to the memorial of Mr. Hammond, of March 5; shows that the infraction of the treaty began with Great Britain; and that many of his allegations against the United States were unfounded, 1792, May 29, ... 201
Recalls to his recollection Mr. Jefferson's memorial of May 29, 1792, and asks when a reply might be expected, 1793, June 20, ... 238
Reiterates the request of his last note, 1793, Nov. 15, ... 238
To Mr. Pinckney, American minister, bringing to his view the British instructions of June 8, 1793, subjecting corn, meal, and flour, to the law of contraband, and subjecting to capture and condemnation American vessels proceeding, for the first time, to blockaded port, 1793, Sept. 7, ... 239
To Mr. Hammond, in reply to the note transmitting instructions to His Majesty's ships of war and privateers, 1793, Sept, 22, ... 240
To Mr. Genet, respecting his propositions for a commercial convention, 1793, Nov. 5, ... 246
To Mr. Carmichael, minister to Spain, by Colonel Humphreys, 1790, Aug. 2, ... 247
Reports to the Senate the state of the negotiation with Spain, and its proposed transfer to Madrid, 1791, Dec. 22, ... 251
Instructions from, to the American ministers in Spain, on the subjects of boundary; Mississippi; commerce, 1792, March 18, ... 252
To Messrs. Viar and Jaudenes; informs them of the appointment of Messrs. Carmichael and Short, commissioners plenipotentiary to treat at Madrid, 1792, March. 23, ... 257
To Messrs. Carmichael and Short; communicates the project of a convention concerning fugitive debtors and criminals, 1792, April 24, ... 257
To Messrs. Viar and Jaudenes; that measures had been taken to prevent hostile depredations by the Creeks on Spanish settlements, 1792, May 17, ... 258
To Carmichael and Short; that the Baron de Carondelet has excited the Creeks to hostilities against the United States, while the policy and measures of the United States towards Spain were the reverse, 1792, Nov. 3, ... 259
To Carmichael and Short; justifies the policy and measures pursued by the United States towards the Indians; and replies to the several charges made by the Spanish commissioners in their letter of June 18, 1793, June 30, ... 265
To Jaudenes and Viar; acknowledges their letter of June 8, and intimates that negotiations upon its contents will be opened at Madrid, 1793, July 11, ... 267
To Jaudenes and Viar; expresses the willingness of the American Government to consider their note of July 13, as evidence that all was not meant which was apparently expressed by their letter of the 18th June, 1793, July 14, ... 268
Reports the measures which have been pursued to continue the treaty with Morocco, and effect the liberation of Algerine captives, ... 288 to 300
Report of, on privileges and restrictions of the commerce of the United States in foreign countries, ... 300
To Jaudenes and Viar, respecting the pretensions and conduct of the Spanish Governor of Louisiana towards the Indians, 1793, Dec. 21, ... 304
To G. Morris, announcing his resignation as Secretary of State, and the appointment of Mr. Randolph as his successor, 1794, Jan. 3, ... 402
His decease prevents the execution of his commission, ... 293
System, revision of, proposed, ... 19, 50
System, proposition to remodel, ... 59
Of the United States, the jurisdiction of, proposed to be defined, ... 22
The purity and integrity of the American, defended by the Secretary of State against the charges of Mr. Fauchet, 1795, June 13, ... 617, 618
Opinion of the Attorney General as to its extent, ... 148
Letter of Mr. Jefferson concerning its extent, ... 183
Over prize causes and privateers, 1796, ... 659
Objected to by France, and defended by Mr. Monroe, 1796, March 15, ... 659
Claimed by the consuls of France, ... 153
Military force sent from, ... 80
The good conduct of the Governor and militia of, ... 85
Instructions to the Governor of, relating to illegal movements within the State, 1793, November 9, ... 458
The Governor of, communicates his sentiments on the movements in that State against the territory of Spain, 1794, January 13, ... 455
Sale of vacant, proposed, ... 17, 58
Extinction of Indian title to, ... 60, 62, 64, 67
Habitation necessary to give title, ... 60
Purchase of, between Oconee and Oakmulgee rivers, ... 60
From the mouth of the Illinois up the Ohio, ... 62
Between the Wabash and Ohio, ... 64
Between Connecticut Reserve and former Indian boundary, ... 67
From Indian boundary to the Rapids, ... 67
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Donation of, for a National University, recommended, ... 69
New principles of, asserted by foreign Powers, ... 66
Innovations on, ... 70
Whether searches or seizures of neutral vessels on the high seas, for persons or property, is in conformity to, ... 83
Infractions of, require legislative remedy, ... 79
Municipal, defects in, or in their administration, ... 71
(See Seminaries.)
To Mr. Morris, that his complaint respecting the violation of his letters would. be attended to, 1792, Sept. 8, ... 339
That the passports required would be prepared; existing relations between France and the United States, 1792, Sept. 16, ... 339
That his complaints respecting captures will receive serious attention, 1793, March 26, ... 359
That capture, are attributable to the fraudulent use of the American flagreal injuries will be redressed, 1793, March 29, ... 359
On the memorial of Thomas White, and transmitting a circular of the Minister of Marine, 1793, April 8, ... 362
On the subject of passports, and enclosing a decree of the National Convention opening the ports of France to American vessels, 1793, April 8, ... 362
Letter from, to Mr. Morris, on the violation of the treaty, and the neutral rights of the United States, 1793, May 17, ... 364
To Mr. Morris, transmitting the decree of the 23d of May, 1793, May 26, ... 365
Promising reparation for the outrage upon the Little Cherub, and transmitting his report thereon, 1793, June 21, ... 368
Statement concerning, by the District Attorney, ... 637
For the regulation of trade, sometimes preferable to treaty stipulations, ... 111
British, additional regulations to prevent their acceptance recommended, 1812, ... 81
Subscription to, ... 17
In time of peace inexpedient, ... 45
From the Bank of the United States, its reimbursement recommended, ... 20, 22
Reimbursement of the temporary, ... 79
For sixteen millions, effected at not less than seven and a half percent., ... 84
Offered by Pennsylvania, ... 84
Terms of, improved by internal revenue, ... 84
Additional, necessary, ... 86, 88
From the United States, application of France for, to aid in carrying on the war, 1794, Nov. 13, ... 685
Observations by Mr. Monroe, on the application by France for, ... 686
Letter from, 1792, ... 133
Acquired by negotiation, 1803, ... 61, 63
Spain withdraws her objection to its valid transfer, ... 63
Its occupation, government, and exploration recommended, ... 62
Commencement of government in, ... 63
Further legislation for, recommended, ... 63
Appointment of officers for, ... 63
Lead mines of, their number, value, and protection, referred to Congress, ... 63
Commerce, and conferences with Indians of, ... 63
An objection to its acquisition, that the enlargement of territory would endanger the Union; stated and answered, ... 65
Controversy with Spain, respecting the boundary, ... 66, 68
Encroachments into, by Spanish troops, ... 68
The Sabine proposed as a temporary boundary, ... 68
Payment of American claims for the purchase of, ... 69
Memorial of, ... 508
Adverts to the condition and policy of the United States, ... 73
Declares the principles by which he shall be governed, ... 74
His second inaugural speech, ... 82
Adverts to the cause and progress of the war, and the considerations which urge its vigorous prosecution, ... 82, 83, 84, 85
Recommends the imposition of additional taxes and internal duties, ... 84
Contrasts the benefits and disadvantages of the war, ... 86
Resorts, in self-defence, to a system of retaliatory warfare, ... 85, 66
Arms and stores in, ... 29
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Further support necessary, ... 54
Enlargement and improvement of, recommended, ... 72, 76, 77, 79
Encouragement for private, ... 73
Necessary to national independence, ... 31, 32
Adapted to our circumstances, recommended by Mr. Jefferson, ... 61
May be promoted by import duties and the judicious application of surplus revenue, ... 65, 69
Progressive state of, ... 16, 28, 73, 76
Should be left free to individual enterprise, ... 59
Promoted by the interruptions of commerce, 1808, ... 73, 76
Established by necessity may require protective duties, ... 73, 77
Will be promoted by authorized means, ... 74
Their establishment regarded as more than an equivalent for the losses sustained from foreign injustice, 1810, ... 77
The protection of, in their infancy, by a commercial tariff, recommended, 1810, ... 77
Should be protected against a change of circumstances, ... 79
Established and extended by the war, ... 86
Their existence excite the vindictive animosity of the enemy, ... 88
Their enlargement and improvement, ... 72, 76, 77, 79
By private enterprise encouraged, ... 73
Over prize causes, defended, ... 659
His authority in favor of provisions being contraband is denied by Mr. Randolph, ... 453
Do. December 15, 1802, ... 60
Do. October 17, 1803, ... 61
Do. November 8, 1804, ... 63
Do. December 3, 1805, ... 66
Do. December 2, 1806, ... 68
Do. October 27, 1807, ... 70
Do. November 8, 1808, ... 71
Of President Madison, May 23, 1809, ... 74
Do. November 29, 1809, ... 75
Do. May 25, 1813, ... 83
Do. December 7, 1813, ... 84
Do. September 20, 1814, ... 87
Of President Washington, June 11, 1789, with a convention with France concerning consuls; &c., ... 89
Respecting eastern boundary, ... 90, 99
Concerning Algerine captives, ... 100, 128
Explanatory of the reasons for nominating a minister to Portugal, 1791, ... 127
Transmitting a letter of the King of France, 1792, ... 133
Asking the advice of the Senate in certain contingencies, 1792, ... 136
On the relations with France, England, and Spain, and the conduct of citizen Genet, 1793, ... 141
Transmitting two letters from an American consul, showing depredations on American commerce by British cruisers, 1794, March 25, ... 428
Suggesting an extension of the embargo to fishing vessels, 1794, March 28, ... 429
Transmitting documents showing the dispositions prevailing in the Western Country respecting the occlusion of the Missisippi by Spain, 1794, May 20, ... 454
Transmitting to Congress the form of a certificate required by Spain for the admission of American produce into her ports, 1794, May 26, ... 463
Stating the recall of G. Morris, in compliance with the desire of the French Government, and nominating James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary in his stead, 1794, May 27, ... 463
Transmitting a general view of the relations of the United States with France, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Morocco, and Algiers, 1794, Feb. 28, ... 469
Recommending. provision for two consuls on the coast of Barbary, 1795, ... 470
Transmitting the treaty concluded by Mr. Jay, and his correspondence with the British Government, 1795, June 8, ... 470
Transmitting an address of the Committee of Public Safety of France to Congress, 1795, Jan. 4, ... 527
Declining to comply with the request of the House of Representatives, to communicate the instructions and correspondence relating to Mr. Jay's treaty, 1796, March 30, ... 550
Relief of, ... 85
Its more perfect organization, and a diffusion of its advantages recommended, 1810, ... 78
Additional proposed, ... 78
Essential to the military establishment, ... 79
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Safeguard against unlawful, ... 68
Augmentation of, ... 41, 48, 67, 68, 71, 72, 79, 81, 84, 88
Additional measures to fill the ranks, recommended, 1812, ... 77
Appointment of officers for, ... 72
Organization of the additional, ... 75
Modifications of the laws relating to, ... 75
Increase of, and prolongation of enlistments, ... 79
Seminaries for, recommended, ... 79
Insufficiency of provisions for recruiting service, ... 81, 84
Increase of general officers, ... 81
An act for raising an additional, executed, 1808, ... 72
Progress in raising and organizing, ... 75
Evacuation of, by British troops, ... 30
Evacuation of, by the Spanish troops, ... 47
Statement of, where garrisons are expedient, ... 58
Should be armed and disciplined, ... 11, 14
Defects in their organization, suggested, ... 22, 25
Called upon to maintain and execute the laws, ... 24, 50
The improvement of the existing system, recommended, ... 25, 28, 32, 41, 59, 61, 64, 67, 72, 76, 81, 86, 88
Their organization, arming, and discipline, rendered expedient, ... 25, 32, 41, 67, 69, 72, 76, 77, 81, 86, 88
Classification of, recommended, ... 67, 88
Formation of seamen into special, proposed, ... 71
Quotas of, and of volunteers required, ... 71
Detachments from, ... 72, 79, 85, 88
Discharge of requisitions of, ... 74
Preparations for arming, ... 77
The instruction of commissioned and non-commissioned officers, by calling them into the field, proposed, ... 77, 78
Laws respecting, require revision, ... 81
Detachments from Massachusetts refused by the Governor of that State, ... 80
Have no right to require to be informed of the stipulations of treaties made by the United States before their ratification, 1795, ... 614
Rights of, the public law authorizes the Government to apply for their recall or coerce their departure, as it may deem fit; opinion of some of the diplomatic corps in Paris in the case of Count Carletti, 1795, ... 729
State of, requiring additional legislation, ... 29
Instructions of Mr. Jefferson, Secretary of State, to Messrs. Carmichael and Short respecting its free navigation, 1792, March 18, ... 253
Its exclusive navigation, even above latitude 31, claimed by Spain, 1793, ... 308
The right of the United States to participate in its navigation, considered by Messrs. Carmichael and Short, 1793, ... 438
Mr. Monroe endeavors to interest France to obtain its free navigation, 1795, ... 695, 698
Paper respecting the importance of its free navigation to the United States and France, presented to the Committee of Public Safety, 1795, ... 698
Disquietude in the United States from not being permitted to navigate freely, ... 61
The purchase of contiguous territory attempted, ... 61, 62
The sovereignty over, acquired, ... 61, 62
Fortifications near the mouth, ... 68
Explored by Lieutenant Pike, ... 69
Surveys of, ... 69
Call on the Governor of, for volunteer cavalry, ... 68
Fortifications in, ... 68
Settlement of, for military protection, recommended, ... 68
Troops called from, ... 85
Depredations of Indians inhabiting the territory of, ... 66
Arbitrary vexations of commerce on, ... 66
Circular from, to the civil ordonnateurs in the ports of France, 1793, ... 362
Letters from, to the Secretary of State; the Directory had promised to state their objections to the measures of the American Government; he transmits them; the specific complaints of France against the United States, 1796, May 2, ... 658
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Instructions to, by the Secretary of State, on his departure as minister to France; exhibiting the general views of the American Government as to France and Great Britain; and the determination of the President to avoid a connexion with either, and to maintain with both an impartial neutrality; subjects enumerated requiring his attention; and those to be referred to his own Government, 1794, June 30, ... 668
Letter from, to the Secretary of State; execution of Robespierre and others of his party; his fate merited; the committees of salut public and "sureté general;" the revolutionary tribunal, and the convention, all impelled by him; his power; his character; his executions, on mere suspicions; designs against the convention; fear awakens enemies; the convention prevail; the true cause of his sanguinary course; tranquillity in the country and in the army; war, the employment of men; agriculture, of boys and women; future operations of the army, abroad, contrasted with the armies of Rome; events of the war;. success of the French; Jourdan; bloody sea action, 1794, August 11, ... 671
Address to the convention; his reception; attention to him; position of the army; public tranquillity, 1794, November 7, ... 673
Declines accepting the use of a house, with which he is tendered, 1794, August 22, ... 675
To the Secretary of State; enters on his duties; attempts to obtain indemnity for spoliations; claims classified; causes of the delay in procuring redress; other objects of his mission; state of the public councils; and of different parties; change in the members of the committee of public safety; the happy close of the revolution anticipated from the moderation of the cabinet; the military operations equally encouraging, 1794, September 15, ... 675
To the Committee of Public Safety; on the departure of France from the 23d and 24th articles of her treaty with the United States; the injuries resulting from the Bourdeaux embargo; claims for St. Domingo supplies; the restrictions of France upon American commerce, and the capture of American vessels, under the decrees of France, shown to be unjust and inexpedient; motives urged for a more liberal conduct; state of the American trade with France; meliorations suggested; indemnities claimed; the union of the republics, 1794, September 3, ... 676
To the Secretary of State; the state of his application in behalf of the commercial interests of the United States; circumstances which may protract a decision; causes which have led to the extermination of private trade; placing commercial operations in the hands of Government, and which may produce re-action; American consulates should be filled by American citizens; appointment of Mr. Skipwith; his difficulties and determination concerning passports; the public councils; the Mountain party, who succeeded the Brissotines, are yielding to the party of the Plain; characteristics of the contests and debates; the Jacobin party; its history important; outlines; fall; military success of the republic; probable effects; England alone to maintain the contest, 1794, September 25, ... 678
Meets with delay, in receiving a decision on American claims; his statement of the embarrassments attending American trade; questioned, Whether he insisted on the observance of the treaties? Equivocates; refrains from bringing forward subordinate matters; Algiers; character of consuls; applied to, in behalf of Thomas Paine and Madame Lafayette; decree against the Jacobins, 1794, November 7, ... 682
To the Committee of Public Safety; claims for detention; supplies; spoliations; embarrassments to trade; paper upon American commerce; advantages of free trade, 1794, October 18, ... 683
To the Secretary of State; his conjectures of the intentions of Spain, from receiving a note from Mr. Gardoqui; the interests of the United States would not be promoted by an accommodation between France and Spain; the attention of France directed against Great Britain; solicits pecuniary aid from the United States; inducements; suggests the loan of money to France, as the equivalent of her guarantee of the objects of the United States at the peace; successes of the French; war with England the policy of the United States, 1794, November 20, ... 685
To the Committee of Public Safety, on the application of Mr. Gardoqui to use the baths of France, 1794, November 13, ... 686
To the Secretary of State; concessions by France in favor of American claims and commerce; the treaty with France will probably be observed; Gardoqui; represents that the United States will be glad to render France any service; his representation respecting Mr. Jay's powers; recommends assistance, in money, to France, at the hazard of war with Great Britain; how this war might effect our object; expectations from France, at a general peace; military successes of France; nothing to hope from Great Britain, 1794, December 2, ... 686
To the Secretary of State; communicates a decree of the convention to observe the treaty with the United States; on what founded; the prospect, once favorable, of harmonious action and good understanding, now clouded; Mr. Jay's adjustment with Great Britain removes the object of the proposed loan; the state of France; favorable to the commercial enterprise of other Powers; growing spirit of moderation and justice; amnesty; re-action of parties; trial of the Nantois, and of Carričre; progress of the war, 1795, January 13, ... 691
He has despatched Mr. Purviance to London to obtain a knowledge of Mr. Jay's treaty; by its communication he desires to remove the uneasiness of the French Government; entry of the French into Amsterdam; proposals of an agent of the States general; conquest preferred; state of the provinces; change in the Government: how to be effected, 1795, February 1, ... 692
To the Secretary of State; his own justification against the censure of his conduct contained in the Secretary's letter of December 2d; reviews the relative condition and measures of France, Great Britain, and the U. States; the circumstances under which he acted; and his motives of action; what France would have done for the United States, if they acquired and preserved her friendship, 1795, February 12, ... 694
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State of France; tranquillity; success; scarcity of provisions; the allies can have no hope of restoring the monarchy or dismembering France; finances; assignats; great depreciation; division of the public councils; majority of convention, supported by the people, in favor of the revolution; the atrocities of the revolution not attributable to the mass of the people; their real character and dispositions; Mr. Pitcairn, consul; interposition of France with Spain on the Mississippi; presents the flag of the United States to the convention, 1795, March 6, ... 696
To the Committee of Public Safety; with a paper on the navigation of the Mississippi, 1795, January 25, ... 698
To the Secretary of State; that Mr. Jay has declined communicating to him the purport of the treaty with Great Britain, which he had requested for the purpose of laying it before the French Government, prior to its ratification; a review of Mr. Jay's letters to him; reasons in favor of his application and intention; dissatisfaction at Mr. Jay; the prospects of Mr. Pinckneyin Spain, 1795, March 17, ... 700
Mr. Jay has authorized Mr. Trumbull to communicate the contents of the treaty to him, confidentially, as a public minister; this he declines: his dilemma; communicates the proposition by Mr. Jay, and his refusal, to the French Government, with his opinion of the public sentiment in America; the purport of the treaty communicated by Mr. Hitchborn, whose paper is also presented to the French Government; the revolutionary incidents and movements; scarcity of bread; riots again in the convention; services of Pichegru; Mountain party crushed; views of the Moderate party; treaty with Prussia, 1795, April 14, ... 701
British treaty; Algiers; aid of France; commerce with France; old subjects not pressed deferred on account of British treaty; general tranquillity; famine; pending negotiations; depreciations of assignats, 1795, May 17, ... 704
To Secretary of State; new commotion in Paris; convention menaced; deliberations interrupted; seat of their President seized; a member killed; the convention rescued; the Mountain party or Terrorists engaged in it; conjectures as to consequences; Mr. Pinckney's arrival, on his way to Spain; refrains from soliciting the co-operation of France; Spain and Great Britain are negotiating a separate peace; American provisions seized by Great Britain, 1795, June 14, ... 712
Great Britain revives her provision order of November 6, 1793; the effect on American commerce; its supposed influence on French councils; whether Denmark and Sweden will acquiesce; probability of the continuance of the war; the policy of the United States to embark in it considered, 1795, June 26, ... 715
To Mr. Short; the relations between France and the United States; distrust in the former produced by Mr. Jay's treaty; necessity that he and Mr. Pinckney should expedite their negotiation with Spain; the stipulation in Mr. Jay's treaty respecting the Mississippi; encloses a letter from a friend of his in France, containing nothing opposed to the interests of France--(see Short.), 1795, May 30, ... 717
To Mr. Short; increasing jealousy in France of the commerce between the United States and Great Britain; the subjects of passports and consuls; Mr. Parish; rumors of a treaty between England and Russia; threatened hostilities may retard the movement of Spain towards France; forwards a letter from Baron Stael, ambassador from Sweden; the contents known to the Committee of Safety, 1795, July 6, ... 718
To the Secretary of State; decree of the convention interdicting passports by the ministers of neutral Powers to any other than native citizens; French aid promised in the Algerine treaty; a treaty formed between France and Spain; its conditions; how France, if satisfied on the subject of Mr. Jay's treaty, might favor demands of the United States on Spain, 1795, August 1, ... 720
His conduct in France while the treaty with Great Britain is depending and uncertain; avoids a correspondence with the French Government on the subject; intimation (untrue) by a French agent that the provision order will be connived at by the American Government, 1795, December 22, ... 728
To the Secretary of State; that we have claims upon Great Britain which can only be extorted by force; an harmonious co-operation with France, uniting our prospects with the successes of her arms, might, at the peace, secure our objects; hence a persuasive to that co-operation; the efforts necessary to aid negotiation; sequestration; seizure of the posts; invasion of Canada; state of the war; the amended constitution; divisions on the formation of the legislature; Paris, 1795, September 10, ... 721
Treaty with Algiers without the aid of France; Mr. Barlow proceeds thither, 1795, October 4, ... 722
The decree of the convention, constituting two-thirds of the legislature to be formed of its members, resisted by the sections of Paris; the convention invested; danger of civil war; the troops of the convention victorious; order restored; further insight into the causes of the insurrection; the intention of the insurgents to subvert the revolution and restore monarchy; what proportion of Paris favored these designs; the engine of terror has shifted hands; no complaint, as yet, against the treaty; in the event of its ratification, he apprehends he shall hear from them, 1795, October 20, ... 722
The convention has closed its career; the new Government installed: the practicability of a republican Government in France; Mr. Fauchet's arrival; his dissatisfaction at the treaty; well received by his Government, 1795, November 5, ... 727
Information had been received of the ratification of the treaty; symptoms of discontent; he is ignorant of the consequences to which they may lead; his representation of the objects of Mr. Jay's mission, derived from his instructions, when contrasted with the facts, placed him in a dilemma; his conduct changes as circumstances developed; justification of his course; the claims on France; Mr. Fenwick; Count Carletti ordered from France; his refusal; reception of the ministers by the new Government; decorum in legislature; Executive energy, 1795, December 6, ... 727
Mr. Parish, consul, complaints against; no symptoms of peace; views of Prussia doubtful; Count Carletti; departure coerced; opinions, 1795, December 22, ... 728
His opinions as to the jurisdiction of American consuls in France under the consular convention; appointment of consuls; forced loans; events of the war; sequel of the affair of Count Carletti, 1796, January 26, ... 729
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To Secretary of State; he is induced by the information communicated the 16th of February, to ask a conference; the consequences which he apprehends from the measure suggested; invites a statement of the complaints of France against the United States, 1796, February 20, ... 730
Letter of, to Minister of Exterior Relations, requesting an interview, 1796, ... 731
To Secretary of State; his conference on the treaty; partial success; state of affairs in France; dispositions of European Powers, 1796, March 20, ... 731
To the French Minister of Exterior Relations, in reply to each of his complaints against the United States, viz: 1. Inexecution of treaties; 2d. Impunity of the British officer commanding the Africa; 3. The treaty of 1794 with Great Britain, 1796, March 15, ... 733
To the Secretary of State; obtains an audience with the Directory; what passed; events of France; Pichegru's resignation and dismission; his character; finances still deranged, 1796, March 25, ... 735
Transmits his correspondence with the Minister of Foreign Relations, (see pages 731, 732, 733, 734,) 1796, May 2, ... 736
Nothing further on the treaty, or the appointment of a successor to Mr. Adet; the flag; conspiracy against the Government discovered; names of foreign residents in Paris furnished; success of the French arms; Rome exposed; offers by the Pope, 1796, May 25, ... 736
The intentions of the Government still unknown; Mr. Adet's successor not appointed; American citizens in Paris; cessation of the truce, and renewed hostilities, 1796, June 12, ... 737
His apprehensions respecting the measures of the French Government, and intentions concerning them, 1796, June 28, ... 738
The vehement desire of the Directory to exhibit their discontent at the conclusion of the British treaty; extravagant pretensions and claims suggested; the treaty of 1788 to be declared suspended; military successes of France; general appearance and improvement of the country; recommends J. C. Barnet, 1796, July 24, ... 738
To the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France; defends the stipulations of the treaty with Great Britain respecting contraband; maintains that they neither contravene the treaty with France, nor the law of nations, nor any tacit engagements; adverts to the violation of treaty by France, by the capture and condemnation of American vessels, 1796, July 14, ... 740
To the Secretary of State; he has objected to the appointment of Mr. Mangourit as chargé to the United States; decree has passed authorizing, the seizure of neutral vessels destined to England and Algiers, 1796, August 15, ... 741
To the Secretary of State; Mr. Adet to be recalled; no successor to be appointed; Spain cedes Louisiana and the Floridas to France; rumors of her designs on Canada by invasion, and the Western States by seduction, 1796, August 27, ... 742
A reply to the Secretary's letter of 13th June, charging him with neglect of duty; representing, his efforts for preserve harmony, and ascribing, the measures of France to their dissatisfaction at the British treaty; substance of the intended decree, 1796, September 10, ... 742
Views of France respecting Canada and Louisiana; the decree to capture neutral property on board British vessels; the treaty sent between France and Spain; Louisiana not in public articles; doubts respecting; military events; military maxim; Bonaparte; sequel of Baboeuf's conspiracy; state of the country; no prospect of peace, 1796, September 21, ... 744
To the Secretary of State; no reply to his note demanding to know whether orders have been issued to seize neutral vessels; military movements, 1796, October 6, ... 745
Communicating the anticipated decree suspending the ministerial functions of Mr. Adet, and subjecting American vessels to the same treatment from French cruisers as they suffer from English, 1796, October 21, ... 745
To the French Minister of Foreign Relations; he has received his note announcing the system of reprisals adopted by the French Government in consequence of the formation of Mr. Jay's treaty; expresses acknowledgments for the attentions with which they have heard his communications, and their liberal sentiments to himself individually, 1796, October 12, ... 746
To the same, respecting his letter of recall, 1796, December 3, 746 To the same; the arrival of Mr. Pinckney ; requesting the appointment of a time for presenting the letter of credence and the one of recall, 1796, December 6, ... 746
To the same, announcing the termination of his functions, and requesting the usual formalities for his departure, ... 747
His address to the Directory on presenting his letter of recall, and the reply, 1796, December 30, ... 747
Measures taken to confirm the treaty with, 1791, ... 128
Letter to, from President Washington, ... 122
Transmits the result of a conference with the Duke of Leeds, 1790, ... 122, 123
Communicates his conferences and interference on the impressment of American seamen, ... 123
Suggests the granting "certificates of citizenship" to American seamen, ... 123
Confers with Mr. Pitt on executing the treaty of 1789, ... 124
Thinks a European war inevitable, 1790, ... 125
Is of opinion that the policy of Great Britain towards the United States will depend on events in Europe, 1790, ... 125
Letter from, to the Duke of Leeds, ... 125
Letter from, to President Washington, communicating the result of his conferences, the object of Great Britain to form an alliance with the United States, and the political motives by which the Government is actuated, ... 126
100 VOL. I.
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Letter from, to Mr. Deforgues respecting the execution of the decree of 27th July, 1793, October 1, ... 312
Extracts from, to the Secretary of State; French affairs, ... 312
To M. Deforgues respecting, the proceedings of French tribunals, 1793, October 12, ... 312
To President Washington; the general state of France; popularity of Lafayette, 1789, March 3, ... 379
To President Washington; France free only in principle; Necker; the state of public morals unfavorable to freedom, 1789, April 29, ... 379
To President Washington; the States-general; the King's inconstancy; the monarchical authority insensibly undermined; character of the King; Queen; Count D'Artois; Necker, 1789, July 1, ... 379
To President Washington; the King governed by his fears; intends flying to Spain; his characteristics; the revolution complete; Lafayette; his loyalty; the army in favor of liberty, 1789, July 31, ... 380
To President Washington; measures to obtain a liberal commercial treaty with France; obstacles which interpose, 1790, January 22, ... 381
To President Washington; state of France; of the finances; of the Executive authority; opinions concerning an offensive war, 1790, January 22, ... 381
To President Washington; American constitution; the parties of France; National Assembly; forms of speaking; Necker; Madame De Stael; public characters estimated; schemes of finance; assignats; their basis and value, 1790, January 24, ... 382
To President Washington; France; state and policy of European Powers; the revolution in what respects a failure; advantages which have resulted, and may yet result. 1790, November 22, ... 384
To President Washington; public men; Lafayette; Duportail; Delessart; the King; all unequal to the impending struggles, 1790, December 1, ... 385
To President Washington; the parties in France; measures of the Government; England; Spain, 1791, March 9, ... 385, 386
To President Washington; the debt of the United States to France; the policy of liquidating on liberal terms, 1791, May 27, ... 387
To President Washington; the new French constitution; political map of France, her territory, commerce, colonies; attempts to form a commercial treaty; foreign restrictions favorable to domestic manufactures, 1791, September 30, ... 388
To President Washington; opinion of the constitution; character of the Assembly; they invite foreign aggression; military preparations; state of the army and of the finances, 1791, December 27, ... 389
To President Washington; the parties in France, their objects, and characteristics; leading characters described; the ministers of the King divided; to what parties they are severally attached; their characters, moral, intellectual, political; foreign policy; the nation in favor of war; an alliance or negotiation with England projected; the King overruled, 1792, February 4, ... 390
To President Washington; causes wherefore the advances to Great Britain failed; Mr. Pitt's policy and management; changes, contests, and divisions, in the French ministry, 1792, March 17, ... 392
Dumouriez appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs; his character and views, 1792, March 21, ... 393
Dumouriez unchanged by office; France advances to bankruptcy, 1792, June 10, ... 393
To the Secretary of State; his presentation as minister; the foreign policy of Dumouriez; the army: what form of Government is desired by different parties; despotism preferred to anarchy; finances deplorable; projects for seizing the King; general dismay; the Government divided; mutual attack and defence amongst its members, 1792, June 10, ... 329
To the Secretary of State; new ministry; the Jacobins desire to excite tumult; character of the new ministry; the Government tottering; France threatened with foreign invasion, and verging towards an internal volcano, 1792, June 17, ... 330
The King duped, and in danger; his fate doubtful; the catastrophe hastens; coalition formed against France; measures of the allies; affairs of his mission. 1792, July 10, ... 331
The King must be destroyed or soon become absolute; the state of morals prevents the hope of a favorable result; a determination to suspend the King only prevented by fear of the army, 1792, August 1, ... 332
To Chambonas; commercial treaty proposed, 1792, July 9, ... 332
To Secretary of State; objects of the several parties; scruples of the King, fitted more to suffer than to act; the crisis approaches; force must decide; Bonne Carričre; character; debt to France, 1792, August 16, ... 333
To William Carmichael; debt due by America to Spain, 1792, July 3, ... 334
To S. Cathalan. American consul at Marseilles, 1792, August 13, ... 335
To Secretary of State; interest due to foreign officers who had served the United States, 1792, August 17, ... 334
To Secretary of State; military operations of the allies; tardy movements of the Duke of Brunswick; the minister of Great Britain recalled; war threatened in the event of extreme measures against the royal family; his own situation, 1792, August 22, ... 336
Applications made to him by the ministers of France, respecting the liquidation of the French debt; his decision displeases them; his house searched for arms; foreign ministers are leaving Paris; he remains, 1792, August 30, ... 336
Apprehended scarcity in France; public executions of the clergy; the accused and the suspected; Madame de Lamballe; inhuman spectacle; Montmorin; Duke de la Rochefoucault, 1792, September 10, ... 337
To S. Cathalan, consul at Marseilles; discourages his going to America to purchase wheat, 1792, September 10, ... 337
To Secretary of State. enclosing his correspondence with the French minister, 1792, September 19, ... 338
To M. Le Brun; encloses a letter, the seal of which had been broken, and requests a stop to be put to such violations, 1792, August 20, ... 338
To M. Le Brun, declining to make certain pecuniary arrangements, in anticipation of the regular payment of the debt to France, 1792, September 1, ... 338
Renewing his request for passports for the interior of France, 1792, September 17, ... 310
To the Secretary of State; private speculations; Lafayette; European politics; Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain; the King's opinions; state and objects of parties; France threatened with famine, 1792, September 27, ... 340, 341
To Mr. Short; imprisonment of Lafayette; whether the United States, or their ministers, can rightfully or usefully interfere in his behalf, 1792, September 12, ... 342
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To Secretary of State; requests instructions; St. Domingo speculation rerived; retreat of the Prussians, and military operations; causes to which the failure of the allies was attributed; Madame de Guisne; Domestic affairs; which party the true authors of the republic; the convention establish a guard; the policy of that measure examined; the present temper of the people favorable to a republic; their future sentiments doubtful; the only basis of public morals, 1792, October 23, ... 343
Debt to France; Indian war; suggests the building a fleet on Lake Erie; the French armies ; their characteristic excellencies and defects; the Flemings; how divided; designs, policy, and success of Dumouriez excite against him suspicion and envy; ordered from Flanders to support Custine; state of the French armies; the rival parties; the trial of the King; obnoxious to all parties; his death probable; the Duke of Orleans used as an instrument; will not be benefited; the convention form no constitution; state of foreign Power; Great Britain; elector of Hanover; Spain, Russia, Turkey; obligations of the United States, 1792, December 21, ... 344
To George Washington; Genet appointed minister; ultimatum of Great Britain. the effect of its adoption; particulars respecting Genet; designs on foot to send the King to America, 1792, December 28, ... 395
To the Secretary of State; France makes advances to Great Britain; encloses correspondence, 1793 January 1, ... 347
To De la Motte, consul, concerning a fraudulent American vessel, 1792, December 22, ... 348
To the Secretary of State; Dumouriez in treaty with the rival parties; the storm about to burst, 1793, January 6, ... 348
Houdon's statue of Washington is finished, 1793, January 17, ... 348
To Washington; character; intrigues; services and corruption of Westermann; danger of Dumouriez; the imprisoned King must die or reign, 1793, January 10, ... 395
To Secretary of State; execution of the King;, his deportment; circumstances attending it; consequences which may follow; war between France and Great Britain inevitable; Continental powers making preparations; Jacobin clubs and principles are extended to Sweden, 1793, January 25, ... 348
War exists between Great Britain and France; consequences and measures anticipated; negotiations for a commercial treaty transferred to the United States; makes an advance to Lafayette; locates himself in the country, 1793, February 13, ... 349
To W. and J. Willink; to supply Lafayette to the amount of ten thousand florins, 1793, January 27, ... 351
To Washington; prospects dreadful; Government disorganized; venality nearly universal; the foundation of the present system a quagmire; the Ministers of War and Marine at a stand. America contrasted, 1793, March 14, ... 396
To Secretary of State, enclosing a plan of Monsieur Duchesne for civilizing the Indians, 1793, February 13, ... 351
To Monsieur Duchesne, acknowledging the receipt of his letter, with a memoir for civilizing the Indians, 1793, February 12, ... 354
To Mr. Pinckney; that Genet has been furnished with three hundred blank privateer commissions, to be distributed in the United States, 1793, March 2, ... 396
To the Secretary of State; Genet's blank commissions; the effect on public morals of sudden wealth by bad means; the ranks of the army filled with difficulty; the convention falling into contempt; a dictator already called for; the ports of France opened to all nations reciprocating this measure; events of the war; Breda taken; Dumouriez advances to Holland, 1793, March 7, ... 354
To Mr. Pinckney, on passports granted American vessels, real or pretended, 1793, February 18, ... 355
To Secretary of State; war with Spain; French army in Flanders defeated, 1793, March 8, ... 355
Details of the defeat, and conjectures respecting the war, 1793, March 9, ... 356
Military occurrences; revolutionary tribunal organized, 1793, March 13, ... 356
Correspondence of Pache and Dumouriez; military details; the effective force; positions and commanders of the French armies; plans and movements of the allies; retreat of Dumouriez; Custine in danger; insurrections, 1793, March 26, ... 356
To M. Le Brun, complains of the violation of the treaty, by the capture of the American ship Mercury, 1793, March 28, ... 359
To Secretary of State; the military operations and prospects of Dumouriez and Custine; the army of Damouriez will go with him, 1793, April 5, ... 360
Transmits his correspondence with Mr. Le Brun, 1793, April 11, ... 360
Defection of Dumouriez; the militia have deserted his standard; Dumouriez and Coburg declare in favor of the late constitution; the public mind in a state of suspense; the Duke of Orleans a prisoner; the stormthickens, 1793, April 19, ... 360
To Le Brun, enclosing forms of certificates of registry of American vessels, 1793, April 1, ... 361
To M. Le Brun, transmitting a memorial of Thomas White, whose vessel and cargo were captured by a French privateer, &c. 1793, April 3, ... 361
To Secretary of State; Prince de Coburg; his conduct disapproved; military operations, 1793, May 20, ... 363
To M. Le Brun, complaining of the illegal detention of an American vessel, the ship Fame, 1793, April 28, ... 364
To M. Le Brun, remonstrating against the French decree of May 9, subjecting neutral vessels, laden with provisions, to seizure, and laden with merchandise belonging to an enemy to capture and condemnation, 1793, May 14, ... 364
To M. Le Bran, relating to the ship Fame, ... 365, 366
To Secretary of State, transmitting further correspondence with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1793, June 1, ... 365
Ship Fame and her cargo permitted to depart, 1793, June 12, ... 366
Proceedings of convention, respecting American commerce; M. Merlino; reasons tor remaining in France; instructions received and will be obeyed; future offsets against the claims of France; French debt; private speculation; sudden reverses; Washington city; the true policy of the United States, not to be drawn into the vortex of European wars, 1793, June 25, ... 366, 367
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To M. Le Brun; case of the Little Cherub; decree of May 28 revoking that of May 23, 1793, June 19, ... 367
To the Secretary of State; payment of drafts for St. Domingo supplies; case of the Little Cherub; F. Coffyn commended; privileges of American seamen; Nantucket whalemen; causes of the decree of 28th May, 1793, August 13, ... 365
To M. Deforgues, requesting payment for American supplies to St. Domingo, 1793, June 27, ... 369
To M. Deforgues; the decree of 9th May; American vessels arrested, seized, plundered; case of brigantine Patty, 1793, June 28, ... 369
To M. Deforgues, acknowledging the receipt of decrees favorable to American rights, and requesting the liberation of an American seaman, 1793, July 4, ... 369
To M. Deforgues, recalling his attention to the case of the brigantine Patty, 1793, July 21, ... 370
To M. Deforgues; that the decree of July 1 remains unexecuted, from the representations or influence of individuals, 1793, July 24, ... 370
To the Secretary of State; his applications in behalf of American vessels captured by French privateers, too numerous for particular specification; exchange; currency; causes of depreciation; France, so far, victorious, but her resources are wearing away; two questions, 1793, September 22, ... 370
The despatch, relating to the recall of Mr. Genet, received; his letter, accordingly, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1793, October 10, ... 372
To M. Deforgues, transmitting a despatch from the Secretary of State, requesting the recall of citizen Genet, 1793, October 8, ... 373
To the Secretary of State; consuls and vice consuls ought to be appointed; difficulties by which he is surrounded,; obliged to choose between national and individual interests; causes which render his interference in behalf of individuals sometimes inexpedient, and often intellectual; encloses correspondence, 1793, October 10, ... 373
To M. Deforgues; in favor of four captains, who were prohibited from exporting French productions or merchandise, 1793, August 20, ... 374
To M. Deforgues, representing the injurious effects of certain decisions of the tribunals of France, on the commercial and political relations of the two countries, 1793, October 1, ... 374
To G. Washington erroneous opinions prevalent in America concerning France; the Government of France in reality a despotism; the convention claim all power; how delegated to the Committee of Safety, and to the revolutionary tribunal, and how exercised; France will soon be governed by a single despot; the Queen executed; measures of more terror meditated, 1793, October 18, ... 397
To Secretary of State; the conduct of Genet considered punishable; his recall determined on; treaty violated, and the violation defended; difficulty of acquiring intelligence through the gazettes; France depopulated and impoverished; the Vendée desolated; objects of the allies, 1793, October 19, ... 375
To M. Deforgues, respecting, the vessel which had arrived with American despatches, 1793, October 11, ... 375
Irregularities in the judicial tribunals of France; a different organization suggested; the proceedings dictated by justice; Governments responsible for the abuse of a sovereign power delegated by them, 1793, October 12, ... 376
Asking an exemption in favor of American vessels, from the decree fixing the prices of merchandise brought into France, 1793, October 13, ... 376
The injurious tendency of the decree of May 9; illustrates by facts the position of the United States; the treaty being, in France, no protection; and, in Philadelphia, the ground of condemnation, 1793, October 19, ... 378
To G. Washington; commissioners to the United States will be appointed; measures which may be asked respecting citizen Genet; the influence to which his conduct and proceedings were attributed, 1793, October 19, ... 398
To Secretary of State; Captain Culver will sail to-morrow; siege of Mauberge raised; the Prince de Cobourg retreats in good order; the French defeated in Alsace; the season favorable to those on the defensive, 1793, October 20, ... 378
To G. Washington; commission of four appointed for America, M. Fauchet, Le Blanc, M. de Laforest, M. Petrie; concerning their reception, 1793, November 12, ... 398
To Secretary of State; French finances; the Catholic religion assailed; Saunier; the feast of reason; probabilities estimated; general state of France, 1793, November 16, ... 399
No foreign exchange; the reasons; distress from the embargo at Bordeaux; the Government in a state approaching to anarchy, 1793, November 26, ... 400
To M. Deforgues; reflections on the Bordeaux embargo, 1793, December 9, ... 400
To Secretary of State; insurgents of Vendée; the Government destined to further changes, 1793, December 12, ... 401
To M. Deforgues, exhibiting the commercial privileges enjoyed by American citizens in France; petition of John Gray, 1793, December 29, ... 401
To the Secretary of State; personal liberty violated; numbers arrested; progress, names, characteristics, and objects of parties; dismemberment of France projected; Thomas Paine; destruction of life in the Vendée Toulon evacuated; the resources of France, though great, wearing away; fear of famine; an indemnification promised for the American ships embargoed at Bordeaux; coins and paper; requisitions of funds, in foreign countries, belonging to French citizens; penalty for non-disclosure; the guillotine; F. Coffyn; consuls and vice-consuls, 1794, January 21, ... 402
No change for the better in the Government; the sole reliance on fear; the effect; Thomas Paine; the requisitions having failed, forced loans resorted to; scarcity in Paris; prices; measures of a deputation of the sufferers by the embargo; his embarrassment from not knowing the intentions of his Government; his domicil violated, 1794, March 6, ... 404
To G. Washington; fall of the Dantonists and Hebertists; theroad to supreme power, either through the army, or the Committee of Safety; Robespierre; the form of Government, and the person who will seize the reins, still in doubt, 1794, April 10, ... 405
To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State; depreciation of assignats; famine; subsidy to Prussia; a commentary on his own correspondence; Paris decides for France; Who decides for Paris? political changes, and the ascendency of particular men accounted for; Danton's opinions concerning a republic; his character and fate; the value of mob sentiment, 1794, April 15, ... 406
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The general state of France, 1794, May 31, ... 407
American politics; weakness of the former confederation; treaties with European Powers should be few in number, and made with caution; the effect of adopting the principle, free ships free goods; whether the temporary enjoyment of the neutral carrying trade would promote the real shipping interest of the United States; an American marine, not conventions, the best protection; European coalition of neutral Powers, 1794, May 31, ... 408
To Mr. Jefferson; his reply to Mr. Hammond; success of the French arms; probable effect on Mr. Jay's mission; Great Britain; in France an abundant harvest; the army must soon cease to be controlled by the Committee of Public Safety; power and property at war; permanent Government; the result of their union; Beaumarchais' claim, 1794, July 23, ... 410
To M. Buchot, Minister of Exterior Relations, concerning the advance by France to the United States, constituting Beaumarchais' claim, 1794, June 21, ... 411
To Secretary of State; the resources of France still hold out; Spain to be invaded, 1794, September 18, ... 411
To G. Washington; tenders acknowledgments for his continued esteem; assigns the reason which had rendered his recall desirable; the situation unpleasant, if not perilous; character of those with whom he had business to transact; grossly insulted, but obliged, from policy, to pursue a conciliatory conduct; Mr. Monroe's arrival; probable success of his efforts; his hopes predicated only on Mr. Jay's treaty; motives for remaining in Europe during the winter months; dismemberment of France abandoned; causes which favor the restoration of monarchy; public feeling yet suppressed by a despotism extending to words and actions; why power has not before been concentrated into the hands of one, 1794, December 30, ... 412
[For a continuation of these notices of the French revolution, see Monroe, ante.]
Extinguishment recommended, ... 45
Increase of, ... 62, 78, 82, 84, 86, 88
Prospect of final redemption, ... 65
The advantages, the location, and the fund for its support, suggested, ... 77
The terms of, recommended to the consideration of Congress, ... 12
Revisal of laws of, recommended, ... 59
Its progressive increase, attributable mainly to public confidence, ... 16
When most flourishing, ... 59
Duties and countervailing duties on foreign and domestic, abolished by British act of Parliament, ... 60
Injury to American by the interdiction by Great Britain of neutral trade, ... 70
Injured by permitting the extension by foreign Powers, of unequal privileges to American citizens, ... 79
The animosity against, of Great Britain, ... 88
Measures for its protection resisted by France, 1791, ... 109
Act for its protection reported, 1791, ... 127
and commerce, restrictions upon, reported by the Secretary of State, 1793, ... 300, 304
Necessity of creating one urged, ... 31
The best means of protecting American commerce, ... 108
The natural defence of the United States, ... 41
Indispensable as the means of defence, 1800, ... 54
Enlargement of, recommended, ... 41, 48, 81
Utility of, proved by experience, ... 54
Expenses of, reduced, ... 58
Required only in the Mediterranean, ... 59
Vessels dismantled and laid up, ... 59
Vessel sold, ... 59
Sites for yards and stations, ... 59
Means (by dry docks) recommended to preserve from decay, ... 61
Gunboats added to, ... 62, 64, 67, 68, 72
Materials previously collected for its enlargement, may be used, ... 67, 69, 81
Part of, cruise against pirates, ... 66
Enlargement of peace establishment, ... 67
Augmentation of, resumed, ... 75, 83
Equipments for, ... 75, 76, 81
The collection of imperishable materials for, recommended, ... 79
Statements and estimates for, ... 77
Protect commerce and capture the enemy, ... 81
Their successful operations, ... 83
State, disposition and increase of, ... 81
Provisions for, on the Lakes, ... 80, 83
Achievements of, ... 81, 83, 85, 87, 88
Foreign ports, necessary for, ... 86
Dry docks for, ... 61
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Duty and advantage of, ... 38
Determination to observe, strictly, ... 62
Departures from, by American citizens, ... 63
Rights of, respected by foreign Powers, ... 63
Rights of, invaded by foreign Powers, ... 66, 71, 72, 77, 88
To be maintained, ... 74
Proclamation of, and instructions to collectors, enforcing, 1793, ... 140
What armaments, by one belligerent, fitted out within the United States, would violate, ... 151, 154
Whether the merchant vessels of one belligerent can be navigated by neutrals, consistently with, ... 646, 648
Armed, of the Northern Powers, its objects, principles, and acts, 1797, ... 560
Mr. Fauchet complains that it has not been sufficiently maintained, 1795, June 8, ... 617, 618
Whether the duties of an impartial, requires the prohibition of every species of service on board the vessels of a belligerent, or only warlike service, ... 646, 648, 649
The right of, to export arms to one of the belligerents, ... 147
The right of, in time of peace, not to be effected by war, 1795, ... 643
The right of, to sell provisions and articles of contraband, considered by Mr. Pickering and Mr. Adet, 1795, ... 645, 646, 647, 648
Search of, contrary to the law of nations, ... 83
Right of deposit at, restored, ... 61
Acquisition of, ... 62
Defence of, approaches to recommended, ... 68, 70, 72
Gunboats, assigned to, ... 81
Tax on transportation proposed to be repealed, ... 22
Postage on, proposed to be taken off, 1801, ... 58
Gunboats assigned to, ... 71
Battle of, ... 87
Expected cessation of, ... 81
Against the law of nations; recommended to Legislative consideration, ... 22
Civil, inadequacy of their compensations, ... 31
Roll of, laid before Congress, ... 58
Unnecessary, dismissed, ... 64
Military, imprisoned by Great Britain, and by the United States, in retaliation, ... 86
Possession of both banks obtained, ... 67
Public, should be left free, to combat error, ... 65
Additional, against neutrals, 1793, November 6, ... 430
Revoking the order of November 6, and substituting others, 1794, January 8, ... 431
Interdicting neutral trade to all ports not in amity with them, ... 70, 71
Attempts to induce their revocation, ... 71, 72, 73, 76
Correspondence and instructions relating to, ... 72
Proposal to withdraw, ... 74
Declare a new system of blockade, ... 76
Rigorous execution of, ... 78
Repeal of, as to the United States, demanded, 1812, ... 81
Remonstrance against, by American minister, ... 242
Giving the right of appeal to American claimants, ... 482
Inroads into, ... 66
Calls on the Governor for cavalry, ... 68
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Conduct necessary to preserve, ... 22
Its cultivation recommended, 1803, ... 62
The natural state of all communities towards each other, which individuals have no right to violate, ... 155
Treaty of, envoys appointed to form, ... 83
Self-created societies in, ... 24
Military force sent from, ... 80
Loan of one million of dollars offered by, ... 84
To be free, must be enlightened, ... 36
Letter from, to Mr. Fauchet, narrating the circumstances of the forcible examination of his trunk, 1795, ... 664
To Mr. Pinckney, reviewing the complaints of France against the United States for alleged violations of their neutrality, as to her, and the abandonment of their neutral rights, as to Great Britain, 1797, January 16, ... 559
To Adet, that captures of French property on board American vessels were warranted by the law of nations; France was restrained, by treaty, from imitating this example; the United States have maintained an impartial neutrality; reasons for not replying to a former letter; answers; Mr. Adet's complaint respecting impressments; desires to know the real intentions of France, 1796, November 1, ... 578
To Mr. Monroe, United States minister at Paris, explanatory of the stipulations in the British treaty of 1794, and of the policy and intentions of the American Government; on the subject of contraband, no neutral right was surrendered; consequences which would result from the United States engaging in the war, upon themselves; on France; motives of the treaty; its resulting benefits; objections answered, 1795, September 12, ... 596
To the District Attorney of New York, relative to the privateer La Vengeance, 1795, October 1, ... 626
To Mr. Adet, communicating the information received respecting the privateer La Vengeance, 1795, October 18, ... 626 to 629
To Mr. Adet, that the Cassius, once liberated, has been detained on other grounds; the case stated, 1795, August 25, ... 632
In reply to his letters of the 10th, 22d, and 24th September, relative to the insult by Captain Home of the Africa; the detention of the privateer La Vengeance, and the arrest of the corvette Le Cassius; the facts and the law of the last unfolded, 1795, October 1, ... 633
Requesting any documentary evidence to sustain the ground that the Cassius had, in a foreign country, become the bona fide property of the French republic, 1796, April 15, ... 635
Asking to be informed when the Cassius became the property of the French republic, 1796, April 25, ... 635
Enclosing a letter from the United States' Attorney of Pennsylvania; the Cassius still in suspense, 1796, June 3, ... 636
That flour and horses may be exported from the United States, subject to the rights of the belligerent, by the law of nations, 1796, January 20, ... 645
Replying to Mr. Adet's memorial of 11th of March; he defends the right of the neutral to carry on an equal trade in articles of contraband with all the belligerents, 1796, May 25, ... 649, 650
To Mr. Adet,in reply to his remonstrance against the passage of a bill to prohibit the sale of prizes brought into the United States by the belligerents, 1796, May 24, ... 651
Representing the depredations of a French privateer (Flying Fish) on American property, and requesting information of her character, authority, and intentions, 1796, June 13, ... 652
That the owner of the privateer reports that he received his orders to depredate on American vessels from Mr. Adet himself; he asks to be enabled to repel this assertion, 1796, October 5, ... 652
Propounding four interrogatories, by order of the President, respecting, any new orders which may have been issued by the French republic, to seize or capture American vessels laden wholly or in part with provisions, 1796, July 1, ... 653
That the sale of French prizes was a permission, not a right; the authority of Mr. Jefferson; the exposition of the treaty by France herself, in her treaty with Great Britain; the law for carrying the treaty of 1794 with Great Britain into effect requires this permission to be withheld, 1796, July 19, ... 653, 654
Recapitulates the facts concerning the French privateers Leo and Bellona; justifies the conduct of the collector of Charleston, and gives plain answers to his four interrogatories, 1796, January 9, ... 656
Explanatory of the reasons which influenced the Government of the United States in depositing the colors presented by the French republic among their national archives, 1796, January 15, ... 656
Disclaiming any authority to determine questions of rank among the "corps diplomatique," or to prescribe the manner in which the publishers of directories shall arrange the representatives of foreign Governments, 1796, March 14, ... 657
Measures have been taken to maintain the sovereignty and rights of the United States; Captain Home, of the Africa, has been required to remove from his station, 1795, September 5, ... 665
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Acting Secretary of State--To James Monroe, acknowledges his despatches from 16 to 21; refers to his former letter of September 12, (page 596;) and states that the views of Mr. Monroe are at variance with those of his Government, 1796, November 23, ... 727
Acknowledges his several letters from November 5, 1795, to March 25, 1796; adverts to the complaints against Mr. Parish, and the case of the Cassius; reviews the letters of Mr. Monroe, showing his full knowledge of the sentiments of the French Government respecting the treaty; and communicates the pointed disapprobation of the President at his indifference or inaction, 1796, June 13, ... 737
The paper dated 9th March, signed by M. de la Croix, was received; the President determines, after reviewing the whole correspondence, to supersede Mr. Monroe, by the appointment of Mr. Pinckney as his successor, 1796, August 22, ... 741
That General Pinckney, who bears the letter, will succeed him, 1796, September 9, ... 742
Secretary of State--His report on the spoliations and injuries committed by France on American commerce; the state of American commerce; the decrees of France; the measures and representations of the American Government, 1798, February 28, ... 748
Letter from, to a committee of Congress, on the expediency of further measures for the relief and protection of American seamen, 1797, February 17, ... 761
To Mr. Jefferson, that his remonstrances against the British regulations have produced no effect, 1793, August 15, ... 241
To Mr. Jefferson, enclosing his remonstrance, and that the British policy remains unchanged, 1793, August 28, ... 241
To Lord Grenville, remonstrating against the order in council of 8th June, 1793, ... 242
To Lord Grenville, on the subject of the order of 8th June, 1793, ... 449
To Mr. Jefferson, that Great Britain still enforces her commercial restrictions, 1793, September 25, ... 243
To Mr. Jefferson, Secretary of State, that assurances have been given by the British minister that no unnecessary rigor shall be used in the enforcement of her commercial restrictions, 1793, Aug. [Sept.] 12, ... 315
To Mr. Jefferson, that Tuscany has been compelled, and Genoa urged, to abandon their neutrality, 1793, November 11, ... 315
To the Secretary of State, (Randolph) communicating the result of a verbal conference with Lord Grenville, on the detention of the posts, the Algerine truce, and the illegal interruptions of American commerce, 1793, November 25, ... 327
To Gouverneur Morris, transmitting the forms of passports granted to Amecan vessels in British ports, 1793, February 12, ... 355
To Secretary of State, transmitting an additional instruction of the British Government, subjecting neutral vessels to capture, 1793, December 26, ... 430
Transmitting the instructions of 8th January, 1794, and the result of a conference with Lord Grenville, ... 430
Nominated envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain, 1794, November 21, ... 469
Commission and full powers to, as minister to Spain, 1794, ... 533
To Secretary of State (Randolph,) from Madrid--
His arrival at Madrid; ceremonial and conferences; delay the object of Spain; the mode by which that was to be attained, by the conflicting representations of the Duke de la Alcudia in Madrid, and Mr. Jaudenes in Philadelphia; an alliance between Spain, France, and the United States, suggested; negotiations still pending between France and Spain; Mr. Monroe has, no doubt, stated the intentions of France; further instructions desired, 1795, July 21, ... 534
To Duke of Alcudia, transmitting a letter from Mr. Jaudenes; whether the five articles presented by Mr. Jaudenes are to be considered as propositions from the Spanish Government, 1795, July 10, ... 535
To the Secretary of State, that the proposed guarantee of Spanish American possessions was declined by him; treaty concluded between France and Spain; Spanish promises of speedy decision, 1795, July 10, ... 535
Communicates his progress in the negotiation, and refers to enclosed letters, embodying the results of conferences, 1795, October 1, ... 536
To the Duke of Alcudia, representing the injustice of requiring the vessels of the United States laden with the produce of Frenchmen to enter the ports of Spain before unlading at the places of destination, 1795, July 29, ... 536
Requesting the liberation of American vessels, laden with French and American products, detained in Spanish ports, 1795, August 6, ... 536
Transmitting a memoir on the right of the United States to the navigation of the Mississippi, and to their southern limit, 1795, August 10, ... 537
Proposes an alteration in his project of a treaty, 1795, August 29, ... 538
In favor of the captain of the ship Betsey, the decision of whose case was deferred, 1795, August, ... 539
In favor of the restoration of the American vessel the Three Friends, 1795, September 3, ... 539
To the Prince of Peace, in favor of two American vessels carried into the port of Cadiz by a Spanish frigate, 1795, September 13, ... 539
To the Prince of Peace, setting torth and enforcing the claims of the United States to indemnities for captures, 1795, September 20, ... 540
Notes of, on a project of a convention proposed by the Prince of Peace, 1795, September 25, ... 540
Enclosing the project of a separate convention, providing indemnities for captures, 1795, October 5, ... 542
Declines signing a project of a treaty, on the ground of its referring to a future day any provision securing to the United States the navigation of the Mississippi, 1795, October 9, ... 542
Proposes a separate article on the subject of a depot at New Orleans, the navigation of the Mississippi, and indemnities for captures, 1795, October 11, ... 543
Draws his attention to a verbal convention that American prizes should be indemnified on the principles of the treaty between France and Spain, 1795, October 16, ... 544
That no reason can exist, in justice or the nature of things, for the proposed distinction between different periods of the war and a different treatment of American vessels in each; submits two propositions, 1795, October 20, ... 544
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To the Prince of Peace, asks his passports, 1795, October 24, ... 545
Transmits a treaty; remarks upon the course of the negotiation; the difficulties encountered, and the terms of the treaty, 1795, October 28, ... 546
A wise, on domestic concerns, ... 16, 74, 75
Of Washington towards European belligerents, ... 21
Of Washington to preserve peace, ... 22
Towards foreign nations declared, ... 26, 36, 37
Foreign, should be based on justice, impartiality, and good faith, ... 36, 37
Foreign and domestic, general rules for, proposed by Mr. Jefferson, 1802, ... 61
Of Mr. Jefferson towards European belligerents, ... 62, 63
Of Mr. Jefferson, for war and peace, ... 69
American, recommendation that they shall be opened to the cruisers of friendly Powers, ... 86
Prohibition against foreign vessels trading with certain, ... 79
Should be subservient to the circulation of political intelligence, ... 19
Mr. Morris confers with Mr. Pitt concerning their detention, 1790, ... 125
Western, evacuation of, by Great Britain, ... 30
Its entire freedom a great moral and political experiment, ... 65
Its proper restraints, ... 65
Liberty of, never to be infringed, ... 74
In reply to his reclamation, on the subject of indemnities, and enclosing a projet of a treaty, 1795, September 23, ... 540
States that the same objection exists to the making a separate convention, on the subject of indemnities, as existed to the insertion of an article in the treaty, viz: that on that subject they had not agreed, 1795, October 7, ... 542
Requests his signature to the treaty agreed on, if conformable to his instructions, 1792, October 7, ... 542
Accedes to so much of his proposition as relates to making New Orleans a place of deposit for American products, 1795, October 12, ... 543
Discriminates different epochs, within which different rules will be applied to American vessels captured, or brought in by Spanish ships of war and privateers, 1795, October 18, ... 544
That he cannot vary from the decision already expressed, in relation to the depot at New Orleans, 1795, October 20, ... 544
Assigns the reason for a different adjudication of American vessels, at different epochs of the war, 1795, October 22, ... 544
A treaty having been signed, measures have been taken, on the part of Spain, to remove animosities, and prevent hostilities in the bordering territory, 1795, October 28, ... 545
American, in Algiers, papers respecting their detention and liberation, ... 116, 416 to 423
Report of a committee of the Senate, concerning, ... 133, 172
Commanded by citizens of the United States, ... 41
French, captures by, ... 47
French, cessation of their aggressions, ... 51
Success of American, ... 83, 88
Ports for their use, ... 86
Their right to bring prizes into a neutral port inquired into; and authorities referred to, ... 465
Courts doubt their jurisdiction over prizes, &c. of Powers at peace, ... 22
Condemned, illegally, in the United States, by French consuls, affords no ground for a demand of indemnification against the United States, ... 147
Made within the maritime jurisdiction of the United States, declared to be a violation of their neutrality, ... 148
Captured, by French cruisers, within the jusisdiction of the United States, will be restored or indemnified, ... 148, 167
Brought into American ports, by French privateers; the sale of, in those ports, was a matter of indulgence, not of right, ... 574
The provisions with respect to, by the treaty between Great Britain and France, and between Great Britain and the United States, of 1794, precisely alike, 1797, ... 574
Correspondence, between Mr. Randolph and Fauchet, on the subject of, 1795, ... 600, 619
Legitimate, are shielded by the treaty with France, but not rapine by every sea-rover, (Randolph) 1795, ... 610, 615
The construction with regard to, contended for by France, 1795, ... 616
The right to sell, as well as bring them in, claimed and denied, 1796, ... 650, 651
American, the sale of, in the ports of France, was prohibited by the treaty between France and Great Britain, antecedent to the treaty of 1794, between Great Britain and the United States, 1796, ... 654
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Foreign ports, for the use of, ... 86
Success of American privateers, in capturing from Great Britain, ... 88
Approved, ... 23
On the insurrection in Pennsylvania, of 1794, ... 24
Renewing commercial intercourse with Great Britain, ... 74
Prohibiting commercial intercourse with Great Britain, ... 75
On revocation of Berlin and Milan decrees, ... 76
In relation to West Forida, 1810, ... 77
Revoking the exequatur and powers of a vice consul of France, 1793, ... 181
Captured and destroyed by British cruisers, ... 30, 44, 45, 51
Destroyed, wantonly, by British troops, ... 88
Discharged, ... 53
The right of a belligerent to seize, maintained by the minister of Great Britain, ... 432
Treaty with formed, ... 54
Inquiry into its efficacy, ... 66
To G. Morris; his own appointment as Secretary of State, 1794, January 10, ... 402
Report of, on depredations committed by Great Britain, France, and Spain, on American commerce, 1794, March 2, ... 423, 424
Letter from, to Mr. Fauchet, on the subject of an advance to France, on account of the debt of the United States, 1794, March 12, ... 427
To Mr. Fauchet, on the subject of his report on the vexations committed by France on the commerce of the United States, 1794, April 3, ... 432
To Mr. Hammond, in vindication of the neutral rights of the United States, and on the subject of contraband by the law of nations, 1794, May 1, ... 450
To Governor Shelby, in relation to his duties to suppress movements on the part of any citizens of Kentucky against the dominions of Spain; the constitutional and legal rights of the Government of the Union; and the measures taken to obtain from Spain the free navigation of the Mississippi, 1794, March 29, ... 456
Transmits an abstract of the vexations and spoliations on American commerce, ... 461
To Mr. Hammond, on the alleged excitement of the Indians to hostilities, by Lord Dorchester, 1794, May 20, ... 461
To Mr. Hammond, relating to his complaints against alleged acts of violence by the citizens of Vermont, 1794, April 20, ... 463
To Mr. Hammond, in reply to his letter of the 22d May; enforcing his previous views of Lord Dorchester's conduct; justifying the measures pursued by the United States to enforce their neutrality; and rebutting the accusation of partiality to France, 1794, June 2, ... 465
To John Jay; caution necessary in his communications with the French minister; the probable dispositions and conduct of Mr. Hammond; recapitulation of his acts; Governor Simcoe's fort; Lord Dorchester's speech to the Indians; impartiality towards France, 1794, May 27, ... 474
To Mr. Jay, respecting papers, 1794, May 28, ... 475
To Mr. Jay; sends papers and documents, 1794, May 29, ... 475
To Mr. Jay; Admiral Jervis; his system of plunder and cruelty against American commerce in the West Indies; the success of Mr. Jay necessary to preserve peace, 1794, June 8, ... 475
To Mr. Jay; encloses the cases of the Sukey and Maria, 1794, July 9, ... 475
To Mr. Jay, explanatory of the circumstance of the departure of a vessel for France during the embargo, 1794, July 9, ... 478
Transmits a supplement to the cases of British spoliations; animadverts on Mr. Hammond's diplomatic proceedings; cautions him against crediting his representations, 1794, July 10, ... 479
Encloses records, in the cases of capture of American vessels, 1794, July 18, ... 480
Encloses copy of his last letter to Mr. Hammond; reports credited that the British abet the Indians, 1794, July 30, ... 480
Transmits Mr. Hammond's letter of July 30, 1794; proofs of the strict neutrality of the United States; opposition to the excise in Pennsylvania; measures taken to suppress insurrection; and general feelings and state of the country, 1794, August 11, ... 482
Recommending Mr. James King, the owner of the schooner Nancy, to his attention, 1794, August 15, ... 483
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The reprehensible conduct of Governor Simcoe; intentional indecorum of Mr. Hammond; probable issue of the insurrection, 1794, August 30, ... 484
That the insurrection may be expected to terminate without bloodshed, 1794, September 5, ... 484
Directs his attention to particular papers, explanatory of the movements of the insurrectionists, and reviews the reasons which render their prospects of success hopeless, 1794, September 12, ... 485
Entertains little hope of his success, from the complexion of the British ministry, and the movements of Lord Dorchester and Governor Simcoe; the result of the Western insurrection, though not yet ascertained, will be favorable to the permanency of the General Government, 1794, September 17, ... 496
To Mr. Jay; the principle and the extent of indemnification for captures; details respecting; the conduct and temper which the President thinks should be evinced by an American minister; the President approves of the temporary agreement; state of the insurrection, 1794, September 20, ... 497
The different statute laws of Virginia, anterior and subsequent to the Revolution, respecting the recovery of debts; popular impatience in America; the insurrection nearly suppressed; that Mr. Jay has power to appoint an agent for the merchants; difficulty in procuring records of condemnations; yellow fever, 1794, October 11, ... 499
Military opposition from insurgents not expected; reasons for not publishing Mr. Jay--s No. 10, 1794, October 20, ... 499
Mr. Bayard goes to England as agent concerning the appeals; no military opposition shown by the insurgents, 1794, October 29, ... 499
Mr. Marshall, of Virginia, confirms his statement respecting the law relating to the recovery of debts, 1794, November 3, ... 501
Congress form no quorum, 1794, November 7, ... 501
Suggestions respecting indemnities for spoliations, 1794, November 8, ... 502
Animadversions on Lord Grenville's reasoning concerning the negroes; questions Mr. Jay's accuracy respecting the time of surrendering the posts; other points of the projected treaty criticised, 1794, November 12, ... 501
Further remarks on privateer commissions; the negroes; and the posts, 1794, December 3, ... 509
Examines more particularly the articles of the projet which he considers objectionable; reviews the provisions respecting the negroes, the posts, compensation for captures; West India trade; and boundary; and, excepting the last, expresses dissatisfaction with all, 1794, December 15, ... 509
To D. Humphreys; peace with Algiers, 1794, July 19, ... 528
To same; further instructions concerning the terms of the peace with Algiers, 1794, August 25, ... 529
Same, 1795, March 28, ... 529
Same, 1795, April 4, ... 529
To Thomas Pinckney, envoy extraordinary to Spain; his nomination, appointment, and return to London, 1794, Nov. 3, 8, 28, ... 534
To Mr. Fauchet; that the case of the prize to the Sans Pareil has been inquired into; assurances that, in all cases, justice will be enforced by the American Government, 1794, September 3, ... 588, 589
That the prize of the Sans Pareil has been restored, 1794, September 27, ... 588
Desires to see the record of the court before interfering in the case of a prize restored, 1794, October 28, ... 593
Declaration of, respecting a communication with Mr. Fauchet, 1795, July 8, ... 593
To Mr. Adet, containing a defence of the treaty with Great Britain, of 1794, and a reply to the objections of the French minister, 1795, July 6, ... 595
To Mr. Fauchet, on the alleged insult to the French privateer Favorite, 1794, Sept. 25, ... 599
To the District Attorney of New York, on the subject of the alleged insult to the Favorite, ... 599
To Mr. Fauchet, communicating instructions given by the Government, proceeding from an investigation of facts respecting the Favorite, 1794, Nov. 17, ... 599
Encloses a copy of a letter from the Collector of New York, relating to the Favorite, 1795, Feb. 7, ... 599
That the French privateer Carmagnole, illegally fitted out in the United States, must be dismantled, 1794, Aug. 14, ... 600
Transmits a copy of the rules adopted by the Government of the United States, for the enforcement of their neutral rights, and the fulfilment of their neutral obligations; that the Carmagnole (or Columbia) still continues to disregard them, 1794, Aug. 20, ... 600
To Mr. Fauchet, adverts to an exceptionable paragraph in his letter of Aug. 21; reminds him of the measures adopted by the American Government in relation to Genet; and enforces the construction already given to the treaty with France, 1794, Sept. 7, ... 601
States the causes which have prevented the Government from repeating instructions which had been issued to Governor Lee, 1794, Oct. 2, ... 603
To the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, requests the enforcement of the treaty with France, prohibiting British vessels of war from bringing French prizes into the ports of the United States, 1794, Oct. 3, ... 604
Encloses instructions to the Governors of the States, to respect and enforce the treaties with France, 1794, Oct. 10, ... 604
Transmits a letter from the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia; states the measures taken in relation to the British frigate Terpsichore, 1794, Oct. 10, ... 605
Communicates, as a reply, a copy of his letter to the Governor of Virginia; urges the most speedy and effectual measures to enforce the observance of the treaty with France, 1794, Feb. 1, ... 605
Transmits letters received from the Governor of Virginia, showing the measures taken to prevent British ships of war from bringing prizes into the ports of the United States, 1794, Feb. 11, ... 606
To Mr. Fauchet, that his letter of the 2d May had been submitted to the President, who has examined, himself, every ground of complaint; proceeds to comment on his several allegations, tending to charge the United States with a predilection for Great Britain; classifies the cases of restored prizes; justifies their restitution; places the measures of France and Great Britain in their just light; and vindicates the Government against the charge of injustice towards one, and weak submission towards the other, 1795, May 29, ... 614
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To the District Attorney of New York, respecting the French privateer La Vengeance, 1795, July 30, ... 631
Enclosing to Mr. Adet papers respecting the privateer La Vengeance, 1795, Aug. 11, 621
To Mr. Fauchet, accepts the tender of the friendly services of France to effect a settlement of differences with the Dey of Algiers, 1795, June 6, ... 639
To Mr. Adet, asks for the decrees upon which the proposed commercial arrangements are to be based; inquires whether he has power to conclude, as well as negotiate, a treaty; and declares his readiness to enter into the negotiation, 1795, July 1, ... 640
Reiterates the request contained in his note of July 1, 1795, July 12, ... 640
Proposes to enter on the negotiation for a commercial treaty, notwithstanding Mr. Adet's limited powers, 1795, July 13, ... 641
Suggests the expediency of conducting the negotiation chiefly in writing, and states the mode by which negotiation may be carried on, and the objects to which their attention should be directed, 1795, July 16, ... 641
To Mr. Monroe, communicating instructions on his departure as minister to France; revolution; parties; recall of Mr. Genet; and Mr. Morris; in what way the neutrality of the United States benefits France; mission of Mr. Jay; he is forbidden to weaken existing engagements with France; policy of France, if the United States should be drawn into the war; the determination of the President to remain unconnected with either France or England; French exiles; Fauchet; information, statistical, moral, and political, required, as to the state of France; subjects which Mr. Monroe must refer to the American Government; subjects for his own action; indemnification for captures; succors to St. Domingo sufferers; drafts for supplies; consular appointments; friendship of France; navigation of the Mississippi, how it may be acquired, 1794, June 10, ... 668
That he obtain an allowance for supplies furnished the St. Domingo exiles; and the liberation of American prisoners; consular appointments; interposition of France to effect a peace with Algiers; indemnification to be obtained for French spoliations; to speak in a firm and decisive, but prudent and friendly tone, 1794, July 30, ... 669
Transmits the address of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States to the French Convention, 1794, June 10, ... 671
Letter of, to Mr. Monroe; recapitulation of subjects to be brought forward; spoliations; violations of treaty; ship Laurens; effects of Bourdeaux embargo; ship Fame; other claims; condition of the United States; general spirit awakened by the insurrection in Pennsylvania; Mr. Jay restricted; little hope of an adjustment with Great Britain; mutual interests of France and the United States; conduct of Spain, 1794, Sept. 25, ... 678
The unfavorable impression produced by his address to the Convention, and the theatre and ceremonies of his reception; the neutral character of the United States apparently overlooked; remarks on his suggestion that he had not been instructed to obtain the repeal of the decree which violated the 23d and 24th articles of the treaty, or to insist on the execution of the treaty; urged to do so, 1794, Dec. 2, ... 689
His letters of 15th and 25th August are received; his declining to accept the House is approved; instructed to cultivate the friendship of France, without compromitting the neutrality of the United States, 1794, Dec. 5, ... 690
Uncertainty as to the intentions of France; the friendship and impartiality of the United States not to be doubted; the terms of the treaty with Great Britain not a just cause of uneasiness or complaint, 1796, Feb. 15, ... 695
Consuls; passports; Mr. Jay's treaty has arrived; the rights of France are preserved; the adjustment of other questions, whether commercial or territorial, concerns the United States alone; the St. Domingo supplies; the proposed concert noticed, 1795, March 8, ... 699
Refers to his private letter of Dec. 18; is treaty with Great Britain neither offensive nor defensive; independence upon all foreign nations the policy of the President; necessity for an adherence to principle; anxiety to be informed fully on the subject of the proposed concert, 1795, April 7, ... 701
General review of the policy and measures of the United States towards France; the state of France; neutrality of the United States; motives for maintaining; restrictions and spoliations of France upon American commerce; a commerial treaty desired by the United States; professed by France; instructions to Genet; propositions by Mr. Adet; a close alliance the object of France; Jay's treaty, within the scope of a friendly and neutral policy towards France; attempts to defeat the British treaty; the firm determination of the President, 1795, June 1, ... 712
To Mr. Monroe, transmits the treaty made by Mr. Jay, and correspondence with Mr. Adet; the treaty will not be ratified until its return from England, if then, 1795, July 14, ... 719
Public sentiment upon the treaty; its ratification doubtful; the provision orders of Great Britain increase the objections; conjectures respecting the determination of the President 1795, July 21, ... 719
Freedom of opinion on matters of, observations on, ... 65, 74
In the favor of a naval force, 1791, ... 108
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The conditions of a treaty with Algiers, and the expediency of ratifying, 1796, February 29, ... 549
Measures for the relief and protection of American seamen, 1797, February 28, ... 761
(See Committees.)
Of the Secretary of State--On the privileges and restrictions of the commerce of the United States in foreign countries, ... 300
On the decrees of France authorizing depredations on American commerce, 1798, February 28, ... 748
On the spoliations and vexations on American commerce since the European war ... 423
Communicating the navigation act of France, 1794, January 28, ... 416, 422
Of the Secretary of the Treasury--On the application of the fund destined to form a treaty with Algiers, 1797, January 4, ... 555
(See State.--Treasury.)
Approve the measures of the President towards foreign Powers, ... 43
Its augmentation necessary, ... 22
State of, submitted, ... 28, 62, 63,
Progressively improves, ... 32, 54, 58, 62, 64, 73
Revision of the system recommended, 48
From imposts, may dispense with internal taxes, ... 58
From imposts more than sufficient to defray the expenses of Government, ... 60, 65
Abuses in its collection, ... 64
Objects to which a redundant may be applied, ... 65, 69
Receipts in 1805, ... 67
Adequate to its engagements without recurring to loans, ... 67
Accumulation of surplus, commences, ... 71, 73
Amount and disbursement of, in 1807, ... 71
Receipts and disbursement of, 1808, ... 73
Surplus of, over expenditure, how shall it be applied? ... 69, 73
Receipts in 1810, ... 78
Amount and application of, for 1811, ... 79
An increase of, by taxes, recommended, ... 79, 80
Receipts in 1812, assisted by unexpected importation, ... 82
System of internal, ... 84
Penetrating the territory of others; the right of the upper inhabitants to descend considered, 1793, ... 439
Application of surplus revenue to their improvement, ... 65, 69, 73
Assurances of friendship from, ... 81
The proffered mediation of, accepted by the United States, ... 83
Mediation of, declined by Great Britain, ... 85, 87
Measures to form a treaty of commerce with, ... 83
Refugees, relief extended to, 1794, ... 308
Vessels, of France, arriving from, in distress, relieved from tonnage duties, 1794, ... 316
Refugees; the French minister applies for advance for their benefit, 1794, ... 428
And arts, their encouragement recommended, ... 31
And informatiom, the aliment of true liberty, ... 74
Measures to relieve, ... 45
Defect of the law providing for their return suggested, ... 60
Number for the navy limited, ... 67
American, whether they might not be formed into a special militia, ... 71
American, their discharge from British ships insisted on, 1812, ... 81
American and British, their mutual exclusion proposed, 1812, ... 81, 83
Stop to impressment, ... 81
Plan of granting certificates of citizenship, proposed by Mr. Morris, 1790, ... 124
Their impressment resisted, 1790, ... 123, 124
American, impressed by Great Britain; expenses incurred in their behalf, 1792, ... 131
Corps of, organized, ... 81
Protection from impressment, ... 81, 82, 83
American, report of a committee on the mode of obtaining their liberation when impressed, and securing them from impressment, 1796, February 25, ... 532
American, report of committee on the measures necessary for their relief and protection, 1797, February 28, ... 761
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The founding of one, in the city of Washington, recommended, 1810, ... 77
Their preliminary advice given to the President, 1792, ... 136
Approve the measures of the President towards foreign nations, ... 42
Respecting American prisoners at Algiers, ... 130
Nominated a commissioner plenipotentiary to Spain; 1791, ... 131
Letters from, as joint commissioners (See Carmichael.) ... 131
To the Secretary of State, enclosing a Spanish ordinance, of June 9, 1793, regulating the trade with Louisiana and Florida, 1793, July 1, ... 273
To same, enclosing a convention between Spain and England. 1793, August 20, ... 277
To G. Morris, asking his advice and co-operation respecting, the arrest of Lafayette by the Austrian Government, 1792, September 7, ... 341
To Secretary of State; dispositions of Spain towards the United States, concerning Indians, convoy, and commerce to New Orleans, ... 413
To Secretary of State; Spain bound to Great Britain; her internal condition; general review of European politics; views of France and Spain; whether France will pursue, like Rome, the career of foreign conquest; if the war continues, neutral rights will be disregarded, and measures will be taken to involve neutral Powers; connexion of Russia and England; the ports of Spanish Islands opened to American vessels; the Portuguese truce with Algiers, 1794, January 9, ... 442
To Secretary of State; state of Spain; American trade; productions best suited to different markets; ships and vessels entering Cadiz with gold and silver; prices of wheat in different markets, 1794, January 17, ... 444
To Secretary of State; that the King of Spain, having received the long expected advices from Louisiana and Florida, was satisfied that the Indians were the aggressors, and ought not to be protected, 1794, January 21, ... 445
To Mr. Monroe, in France; Spain desirous of forming a separate treaty with France unknown to Great Britain; she wishes to avoid, if possible, a war with Great Britain; conversations with the Duke of Alcudia; desires Mr. Monroe to ascertain and communicate the views of the French Government; a favorable time for Mr. Pinckney's arrival and negotiation, 1795, May 4, ... 716
Measures to prevent, recommended, ... 47
His statement, to the American minister, of the embarrassments and difficulties of the American commerce in France; and of the spoliations committed, 1794, October--, ... 749
Statement of, of claims of American citizens, on France, for captures and detentions, 1795, November 20, ... 753
His statement of American vessels detained by the embargo at Bordeaux, 1795, November 20, ... 757
To Mr. Humphreys relating to the terms on which a treaty with Algiers may be effected; and the measures to be pursued,1795, Aug. and Sep. ... 529, 530
The more effectual prohibition, recommended, 1810, ... 77
Relations with, respecting boundary and indemnification, ... 30
Defers the execution of her treaty, ... 44
Property captured by subjects of, ... 45, 48
Evacuation of posts by, ... 47
Demarcation of boundary between the United States, ... 48
Cedes Louisiana to France, ... 60
Objects to the cession of Louisiana, by France, to the United States, ... 63
Explanations given to, respecting the establishment of a port of entry on the waters of the Mobile, ... 63
Suspends the execution of the treaty of 1802, ... 63
Withdraws her objections to the transfer of Louisiana, ... 63
Threatening state of our relations with, and aggressions by, ... 66, 67, 68
Refuses compensation for spoliations, ... 66
A private enterprize, against the territory of, arrested, ... 68
Decree of, against neutrals, communicated, ... 70
Differences with, still unsettled, ... 70
Negotiations with, suspended, ... 72
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Negotiation proposed by, for the free navigation of the Mississippi, 1792, ... 131
Message, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State concerning commercial arrangements, 1792, ... 133
Propositions by, for a commercial treaty, ... 135
The ground of her interference between the United States and the Creek Indians, 1792, ... 138
Documents showing negotiations with, from 1786 to 1793, ... 247
Negotiations with, on boundary; the Mississippi; Indians, 1793, ... 259, 304
Ordinance of regulating the commerce of Louisiana and Florida, 1793, June 9, ... 307
Claims the exclusive right to navigate the Mississippi, above the thirty first degree of north latitude, ... 308
Additional documents concerning, communicated, 1794 , February 24, ... 327
Concerning the convoy of American vessels by, and measures respecting American commerce to New Orleans, ... 413
A summary of her aggressions upon American commerce, 1792, March 2, ... 424
Her declaration of war, against France, communicated to the Government of the United States, 1794, March 12, ... 425
Complains, by her commissioners, that an illegal expedition is on foot, within the United States, against her American possessions, 1794, March 5, ... 426
The unjustifiable language and charges of her commissioners represented, 1793, October 1, ... 433
The state of relations with, shown in communications from the President, 1794, April 15, ... 435 to 444
Report of a committee on the occlusion of the Mississippi by, 1794, May 15, ... 454
Movements and dispositions in Kentucky, on the subject of her denial of the right to navigate the Mississippi 1794, May 20, ... 454
Prescribes the form of a certificate, for the admission of American produce into her ports, and the exclusion of French productions, 1794, ... 463
An envoy extraordinary to, nominated, 1794, ... 469
Treaty with, of October 27, 1795, and correspondence connected with, transmitted to the Senate, 1796, February 26, ... 533
Overtures of, to France, for a separate peace, through Mr. Short, 1795, May 4, ... 716
President Adams, ... 38, 40, 44, 47, 50, 53
By American citizens, abroad, ... 41
By Danish cruisers, ... 77
Refusal by Spain to indemnify, ... 77
Resumed by Great Britain, ... 70
The Mediterranean trade, 1791, ... 104
The act imposing a discriminating tonnage duty between American and foreign vessels, ... 109
Commercial propositions by Spain, ... 133
Privileges and restrictions of the commerce of the United States, ... 300
Difficulties occurring in the execution of the Algerine treaty, 1797, ... 553
On the spoliations and vexations on American commerce since the European war, ... 423
On the French act of navigation, 1794, January 28, ... 316, 320
Letters of, to American and foreign ministers, (see Jefferson--Randolph--Pickering.)
Repartition of surplus revenue among, suggested, ... 65
The friendly relations with, remain uninterrupted by the war with Great Britain, ... 79, 81
Commercial, for the protection of manufactures within the power and policy of the General Government, ... 77
Assessment and collection of direct, ... 48
Repeal of internal, ... 58, 64
Collection of internal, completed, ... 60
A system of internal, proposed, ... 84
Report of a committee on remitting, to certain French vessels, 1794, ... 314
Duty, an exemption from, the condition of a commercial treaty proposed by France, 1795, July 8, ... 641
Injuries to, committed, by French cruisers and agents, ... 31, 41, 44
Depredations on, by American citizens abroad, ... 41
Depressed by the prohibitory duties of foreign nations, ... 60
Foreign restrictions proposed to be counteracted by countervailing measures, ... 60
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The use of foreign licences or false colors prohibited, ... 79
In contraband articles, whether its permission is consistent with strict neutrality, ... 647, 649
And commerce, whether it should be opened to individuals, or monopolized by Government, 1794, October 18, ... 683
Operations of, in 1808, ... 75
State of, in 1809, 76
State of, in 1810, 78
Receipts and expenditures of 1813, ... 84
Receipts and disbursements of 1814, 88
Loan to supply, effected at an interest of not less than 7½ percent. 1813, ... 84
Means suggested to improve, ... 84
Additional supplies for, recommended, ... 88
On the expediency of accepting further drafts by citizen Genet, 1793, November 23, ... 185
With the Cherokees, ... 17, 67
With the Creeks, ... 30, 60, 67
With the Choctaws, and Chickasaws, and Spain, ... 278, 280
With the Chickasaws, ... 67
With the Delawares, ... 64
With the Kaskaskias, ... 62
With the Piankeshaws, ... 64, 67
With the Six nations, ... 17
Communicated to the Senate, ... 470
Its ratification notified to the House of Representatives, ... 28
Instructions and correspondence requested by the House of Representatives, and declined to be given by the President, 1796, ... 550
Explanatory article thereto, relating, to the third article, and the trade on the Canada line, negotiated in 1796, ... 552
Objections to, by France, on the ground of its being incompatible with the previous stipulations of the United States with her; reply to, by Mr. Pickering, 1797, ... 561
Correspondence between Mr. Fauchet and Mr. Randolph, growing out of, 1795, ... 609, 620
Remarks upon, by Mr. Randolph, 1795, ... 614, 710
Its communication to France, previous to ratification, was required by no duty, ... 614, 711
A suspension of the definitive action upon, is requested by Mr. Fauchet, until the arrival of his successor, 1795, ... 617
Provisional and abortive, 1807, ... 70
With France--Functions of consuls, ... 89, 90
With Spain--Amity, limits, and navigation, negotiated by Mr. Pinckney, 1795, Oct. 27, ... 545 to 549
With Morocco, ... 28
With Algiers, 1796, ... 28, 530
Report on its stipulations, ... 549
With Tunis, ... 31
Commissioners appointed under, to ascertain the true St. Croix, ... 30
Proceedings of the Commissioners, ... 44, 48
Commissioners under seventh article of British treaty or of 1794, and their proceedings, ... 30, 44, 48, 51
Commissioners under sixth article of same treaty, and their proceedings, ... 44, 51
Negotiations depending under, ... 54
Of amity, with France, is contravened by her decree, ... 41
With Spain, execution of 25th article, ... 48
The inexecution of the 7th article, complained of, by the American Secretary of State, 1791, ... 188
The alleged violation of the 4th, 5th, and 6th articles, by the United States, brought forward by Mr. Hammond, 1791, Nov. 30, ... 189
Violations of, by Great Britain, ... 190, 225
Violations by the United States, according to the statement of the British minister, ... 192, 193, 200
The mutual allegations of violated engagements reviewed by the American Secretary of State: with numerous documents on the subject of confiscated estates; British debts; acts of States in contravention of treaty; and the detention of western posts, 1792, ... 201, 237
Instructions for a liberal commercial, given to the French minister, and communicated to the American Government, 1795, ... 640
Exemption from tonnage duty, one of the conditions, 1795, ... 641
Instructions relating to, which were given to Mr. Genet, extend to a union or close alliance, 1795, ... 708
Of peace with Great Britain, authorized, ... 83
Of commerce with Russia, authorized, ... 83
Declares war against the United States, ... 58
One of the cruisers of, captured, ... 58
Progress of the war with, ... 60, 63
War with, terminated, ... 67
Prisoners taken by, ransomed, ... 67
Ordered, to repel Spanish aggressions, ... 66
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Unjust demands by, ... 63
Federal, the only rock of safety, ... 61
Its advantages portrayed, ... 35
Motives to, ... 35
Causes which may disturb, ... 35
To preserve, a government for the whole is indispensable, ... 35
Measures against, by dividing the People from their government, ... 41
Insurrection against the laws of, suppressed, ... 25, 50
How to be preserved against foreign aggression, ... 51
State of, in 1802, ... 60
State of, and of the world, adverted to by Mr. Madison, ... 73
Of the States, the basis of their peace and happiness, ... 74
State of, in 1809, ... 76
General state of, in 1813, ... 84
State of, in 1814, requires patriotic exertion, ... 88
Contrasted with the nations of Europe, ... 28
Their policy and their conduct towards foreign nations, ... 73
Their prosperous career arrested by foreign injustice, ... 73
That foreign aggressions require of them to assume the armor and attitude demanded by the crisis 79
Propositions of, to Great Britain upon declaring war, 1812, ... 81
Their neutral rights not sufficiently maintained in the opinion of the minister of France, 1793, ... 164, 643
The extent and nature of their obligations to France examined, 1797, ... 569 to 572
Their independence not derived as concessions from Great Britain, 1797, ... 572
The neutral fights rights of, what is the rule, or the measure, of their invasion by France, inquired, 1797, ... 573
The neutral obligations of, ... 574
Prizes captured by the privateers of, not allowed to be sold in France, 1797, ... 574
The proper and only judges of what is required by their honor or welfare, 1795, ... 620
Not required by any public duty to communicate an unratified treaty to a, foreign government, 1795, ... 614
The advantages of, urged by Mr. Madison, ... 77
Captures and condemnations of, by Great Britain, ... 30, 44, 48, 70
Captures of, by Spain, ... 30, 45, 48
Merchant, permission to arm, ... 41
Expenditure in support, claims for, ... 45
Foreign, assume the flag and papers of the United States, ... 45
Neutral, captured and condemned, ... 47
Of the United States' Navy, sale of, ... 59
Captured by a Tripolitine cruiser, ... 60
Of France, employed in the trade to St. Domingo, report on remitting the foreign tonnage duty on, 1794, ... 314
American, detained by the Embargo at Bordeaux, 1795, November 26, ... 757
Calls of, from Mississippi and Orleans territory, ... 68
Dependence on, ... 69
Services of, accepted, ... 71, 79
Special detachments of, ... 72, 79
Provisions for, insufficient, ... 81
In Europe, measures to guard against its effects, ... 21, 41
Preparation for, the best preservative of peace, ... 22, 51, 53
European, still continues, ... 40, 44
European, consequences of, ... 41
Preparations for, rendered necessary by the acts of France, ... 47, 48
Termination of European, ... 57
Renewed in Europe, ... 62
Declared by Tripoli against the United States, ... 58, 60, 63
European, wisdom enjoins to avoid its ravages, ... 62, 63
Its cost and losses should be a matter of calculation for those who make, as well as of those who suffer, unjust demands, ... 63
Appearances indicate the necessity of preparations for, ... 67
A state of, forced upon the United States, ... 80
102 VOL. I.
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How waged by Great Britain, ... 80, 85, 88
Progress and advantages of, ... 81, 86
Considerations which justify its declaration and urge to its vigorous prosecution, 1812, ... 82, 83, 84, 88
Citizens of the United States retained, as prisoners against the usages of, ... 82
The events of the last campaign furnish matter of congratulation, 1813, ... 84
Events of, in 1813, ... 85, 86
Not to be considered the greatest of evils, ... 86
Rendered more critical by the pacification in Europe, 1814, ... 87
Great Britain refuses to consider emigrants prisoners of, ... 85
Imprisonment of British prisoners of, ... 85, 86
Violation of usages of, ... 85, 86, 88
Advantages resulting from, ... 86
The incidents of the campaign of 1814 enumerated, ... 87
Commences the action of the the General Government by an invocation of the Supreme Being, ... 9
Proposes to lay the foundations of national policy, in the purest principles of morality, ... 10
Recommends the objects specified in the constitution, ... 9, 10
Declines pecuniary emolument, ... 10
Replies to the addresses of the Senate, ... 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26, 29, 33
Replies to the addresses of the House, ... 11, 13, 15, 18 24, 27, 30, 34
Recommends immediate provision for the common defence, ... 11
Recommends the encouragement of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, ... 11, 12, 30
Suggests measures to protect the frontiers from Indian aggression, ... 11
Recommends a provision to carry on intercourse with foreign nations, ... 12
Recommends a rule for the naturalization of foreigners, ... 12
Recommends the encouragement of science and literature, and proper rewards for useful inventions, ... 12
Approves the determination of Congress to maintain public credit, ... 12
Recommends uniformity in currency, weights and measures, ... 12
Recommends post roads and a post office, to promote internal intercourse, ... 12
Recommends measures to support an army and discipline the militia, ... 11
Addresses Congress in a speech, 1790, ... 13, 16
Recommends the encouragement of American navigation, ... 14
Recommends a uniform process of execution in the federal judiciary, ... 14
Recommends the jurisdiction and functions of consuls to legislative attention, ... 14
Recommends the gradual discharge of the public debt, ... 14, 19, 22, 25
Recommends measures to secure peace with the Indians, ... 16, 19
Recommends moderation, as well as firmness, in the measures of Government, ... 16
Proposes the establishment of magazines and arsenals, ... 17
Recommends a provision for the families of American soldiers who have fallen in battle, ... 18
Proposes the civilization of the Indian, ... 19
His second inaugural address, ... 21
Commences his second term, by again imploring the Divine blessing, ... 21
Communicates his proclamation of neutrality, ... 21, 140
Proposes a repeal repeal of the tax on the transportation of public of public prints, ... 22
Asks the the advice of the Senate, in certain contingencies, 1793, ... 136
Terminates the functions of a vice consul of France, who had disregarded the laws of the Union, 1793, ... 181
Enforces the observance of the laws, ... 24
Recommends adequate protection to the Indians, 28
Announces his policy towards the Indians, ... 16, 30
Announces his policy towards foreign nations, ... 21, 22, 25
Recommends the creation of a navy, ... 30
Recommends the establishment and encouragement of manufactures, ... 12, 13, 30
Replies to the address of Mr. Adet, on the presentation of the national colors of France, 1796, ... 528
Recommends the endowment of a National University, ... 12, 30
Closes his successful administration by a last address to Congress, ... 32
Address of, to the the People of the United States, ... 34
Foreign policy of the United States; to keep aloof from entangling connexions; state of the country; beneficial operation of the General Government on the Southern States; public credit restored; the late census affords a criterion of the growing importance of the United States, 1791, July 28, ... 387
Affairs of France; of the United States; Indians; Union, 1792, October 20, ... 398
Wisdom enjoins to avoid European connexions; the United States not envious of the prosperity of other nations, 1793, March 25, ... 396
On the subject of Mr. Morris's recall; his confidence, regard, and friendship in Mr. Morris are undiminished, 1794, June 19, ... 409
Circumstances connected with Mr. Morris's return to the United States, 1794, June 25, ... 410
In readiness for Congress, ... 51
Becomes the seat of Government, ... 53
The enemy retreats from, precipitately, after its capture, ... 87, 88
Public armed vessels hover in, ... 66
Foreign armed vessels excluded from, ... 70
Operation of the army, under, ... 25
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Not contagious, ... 66
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