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Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson
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Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.PREFACE.The opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound s
- 50 LETTER Cx.x.xVII.--TO LISTER ASQUITH, November 23, 1785 TO LISTER ASQUITH.Paris, November 23, 1785.Sir, I have received your letter of the 14th instant. It was not till the 8th of this month, that I could obtain information from any quarter, of the partic
- 49 June 30. Winds begin to be light, but the sea still very heavy.July 5. Light winds and a smooth sea for the first time, in lat. 43 12'.July 9. Spoke a French brig, Comte D'Artois, Captain Mieaux, from St.Maloes, in distress for provisions. Relie
- 48 Dear Sir, I had the honor of writing you on the 18th of October, and again on the 25th of the same month. Both letters, being to pa.s.s through the post-offices, were confined to particular subjects. The first of them acknowledged the receipt of yours of
- 47 Dear Sir, Having been much engaged lately, I have been unable sooner to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of September the 8th. What you are pleased to say on the subject of my Notes, is more than they deserve.The condition in which you first saw them
- 46 TO THE COUNT DE VERGENNES.Paris, October 11, 1785.Sir, I have the honor of enclosing to your Excellency, a report of the voyage of an American s.h.i.+p, the first which has gone to China. The circ.u.mstance which induces Congress to direct this communicat
- 45 and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CXX.--TO SAMUEL OSGOOD, October 5, 1785 TO SAMUEL OSGOOD.Paris, October 5, 1785.Dear Sir, It was with very sincere pleasure I heard of your appointment to the board of treasury, as well from the hope that it m
- 44 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CXVI.--TO RICHARD O'BRYAN, September 29, 1785 TO RICHARD O'BRYAN.Paris, September 29, 1785.Sir, I have received your letter, and shall exert myself for you. Be a.s.sured of hearing from me soon: but say nothing to any body,
- 43 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CXII.--TO JOHN ADAMS, September 24,1785 TO JOHN ADAMS.Paris, September 24,1785.Dear Sir, My letter of September the 19th, written the morning after Mr. Lambe's arrival here, will inform you of that circ.u.mstance. I transmit you
- 42 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CVIII.--TO JOHN ADAMS, September 19, 1785 TO JOHN ADAMS.Paris, September 19, 1785.Dear Sir, Lambe has arrived. He brings new full powers to us from Congress, to appoint persons to negotiate with the Barbary States; but we are to sign
- 41 Land forces. Their numbers, const.i.tution, and respectability?Revenues. Their amount.Coins. What coins pa.s.s there, and at what rates?LETTER CIV.--TO DAVID HARTLEY, September 5, 1785 TO DAVID HARTLEY.Paris, September 5, 1785.Dear Sir, Your favor of Apri
- 40 TO MESSRS. DUMAS AND SHORT.Paris, September 1, 1785.Gentlemen, I have been duly honored with the receipt of your separate letters of August 23rd, and should sooner have returned an answer, but that as you had written also to Mr. Adams, I thought it possib
- 39 The July French packet having arrived without bringing any news of Mr.Lambe, if the English one of the same month be also arrived, without news of him, I expect Mr. Adams will concur with me in sending some other person to treat with the Barbary States. M
- 38 Congress are not likely to adjourn this summer. They have purchased the Indian right of soil to about fifty millions of acres of land, between the Ohio and lakes, and expected to make another purchase of an equal quant.i.ty. They have, in consequence, pa.
- 37 I find the consumption of tobacco in France estimated at from fifteen to thirty millions of pounds. The most probable estimate, however, places it at twenty-four millions.This costing eight sous the pound, delivered in a port of France, amounts to........
- 36 In your letter of June the 21st, you asked my opinion whether yourself or your son might venture to go to Virginia, to claim your possessions there? I had the honor of writing you, on the 5th of July, that you might safely go there; that your person would
- 35 LETTER Lx.x.xIV.--TO CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL JONES, August 3,1785 TO CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL JONES.Paris, August 3,1785.Sir, I received yesterday your favor of the 29th, and have written on the subject of it to the Marechal de Castries this morning. You shall have an
- 34 TO HOGENDORP.Paris, July 29, 1785.Dear Sir, By an American gentleman who went to the Hague, about a month ago, I sent you a copy of my Notes on Virginia. Having since that received some copies of the revisal of our laws, of which you had desired one, I no
- 33 LETTER LXXVI.--TO MONSIEUR BRIET, July 13, 1785 TO MONSIEUR BRIET.Paris, July 13, 1785.Sir, I am glad to hear that the Council have ordered rest.i.tution of the merchandise seized at L'Orient, contrary to the freedom of the place.When a court of just
- 32 Dr. Franklin, being on his departure, did not become a party to the instrument, though it has been concluded with his approbation. He was disposed to give two hundred and fifty guineas more, which would have split the difference between the actual terms a
- 31 [* The remainder of this letter is in cipher, to which there is no key in the Editor's possession.]Yours affectionately, Th: Jefferson LETTER LXIX.--TO MRS. SPROWLE, July 5,1785 TO MRS. SPROWLE.Paris, July 5,1785.Madam, Your letter of the 21st of Jun
- 30 2. The plan of equal imposts presents difficulties insurmountable. For how are the equal imposts to be effected? Is it by laying in the ports of A, an equal per cent, on the goods of B, with that which B has laid in his ports on the goods of A? But how ar
- 29 Dear Sir, I have been honored with the receipt of your letter of the 2nd instant, and am to thank you, as I do sincerely, for the partiality with which you receive the copy of the Notes on my country. As I can answer for the facts therein reported on my o
- 28 I make no doubt you will have heard, before this shall have the honor of being presented to your Excellency, of the junction of Lord Cornwallis with the force at Petersburg under Arnold, who had succeeded to the command on the death of Major General Phill
- 27 your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER LIV.--TO GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON, April 23,1781 TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON Richmond, April 23,1781.Sir, On the 18th instant, the enemy came from Portsmouth up
- 26 your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER L.--TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS, March 28, 1781 TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Richmond, March 28, 1781.Sir, I forward to your Excellency, under cover with th
- 25 LETTER XLVI.--TO GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON, March 8, 1781 TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON.Richmond, March 8, 1781.Sir, I had the pleasure of receiving a letter from General Greene, dated High-rock Ford, February 29th (probably March the 1st), who in
- 24 LETTER XLII.--TO GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON, February 12, 1781 TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON.Richmond, February 12, 1781.Sir, The enclosed extract from a letter from Governor Nash, which I received this day, being a confirmation of the intelligence
- 23 and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER x.x.xVIII.--TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS, Jan. 15, 1781 TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Sir, Richmond, January 15, 1781.I received some time ago from Major Forsyth, and afterwards from you, a requi
- 22 LETTER x.x.xIV.--TO GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON, November 26, 1780 TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON.Richmond, November 26, 1780.Sir, I have been honored with your Excellency's letter of the 8th instant.Having found it impracticable to move, sudden
- 21 LETTER x.x.x.--TO GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON, October 26, 1780 TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON.Richmond, October 26, 1780.Sir, The Executive of this State think it expedient, under our present circ.u.mstances, that the prisoners of war under the Conv
- 20 LETTER XXVI.--TO MAJOR GENERAL GATES, October 4, 1780 TO MAJOR GENERAL GATES.Richmond, October 4, 1780.Sir, My letter of September 23rd answered your favors received before that date, and the present serves to acknowledge the receipt of those of September
- 19 But I really see no prospect of sending you additional supplies, till the same wagons return from you, which we sent on with the last. I informed you in my last letter, we had ordered two thousand militia more, to rendezvous at Hillsborough on the 25th of
- 18 most obedient, humble servant, Th: Jefferson.[See Appendix, Note D.]LETTER XVIII.--TO GENERAL EDWARD STEVENS, August 4, 1780 TO GENERAL EDWARD STEVENS.Richmond, August 4, 1780.Sir, Your several favors of July the 16th, 21st, and 22nd, are now before me.Ou
- 17 LETTER XIV.--TO GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON, December 10,1779 TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON.Williamsburg, December 10,1779.Sir, I take the liberty of putting under cover to your Excellency some letters to Generals Phillips and Reidesel, uninformed w
- 16 LETTER X.--TO GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON, October 2, 1779 TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WAs.h.i.+NGTON.Williamsburg, October 2, 1779.Sir, Just as the letter accompanying this was going off, Colonel Mathews arrived on parole from New York, by the way of headquarte
- 15 LETTER VI.--TO JOHN PAGE, January 22, 1779 TO JOHN PAGE.Williamsburg, January 22, 1779.Dear Page, I received your letter by Mr. Jamieson. It had given me much pain, that the zeal of our respective friends should ever have placed you and me in the situatio
- 14 I am sorry the situation of our country should render it not eligible to you to remain longer in it. I hope the returning wisdom of Great Britain will, ere long, put an end to this unnatural contest. There may be people to whose tempers and dispositions c
- 13 When I drew mine, public labor was thought the best punishment to be subst.i.tuted for death. But, while I was in France, I heard of a society in England who had successfully introduced solitary confinement, and saw the drawing of a prison at Lyons, in Fr
- 12 10,000 dollars will require eight figures to express them, to wit, 14,400,000 units. A horse or bullock of eighty dollars' value, will require a notation of six figures, to wit, 115,200 units. As a money of account, this will be laborious, even when
- 11 If the princ.i.p.al offenders be fled,* or secreted from justice, in any case not touching life or member, the accessaries may, notwithstanding, be prosecuted as if their princ.i.p.al were convicted.*** 1 Ann. c. 9. -- 2.**As every treason includes within
- 10 * 25E.3. st 5. c. 2; 5 El c. 11; 18 El. c. 1; 8 and 9 W. 3.c. 26; 15. and 16 G 2. c. 28; 7 Ann. q. 25. By the laws of aethelstan and Canute, this was punished by cutting off the hand. 'Gifse mynetereful wurthe sleaman tha hand of, the he that fil mid
- 9 *If a man do levy war** against the Commonwealth [_in the same_], or be adherent to the enemies of the Commonwealth [_within the same_],***giving to them aid or comfort in the Commonwealth, or elsewhere, and thereof be convicted of open deed, by the evide
- 8 But can his Majesty thus put down all law under his feet? Can he erect a power superior to that which erected himself? He has done it indeed by force; but let him remember that force cannot give right.'That these are our grievances, which we have thu
- 7 It is that respecting the question, Whether committees of correspondence originated in Virginia, or Ma.s.sachusetts? on which you suppose me to have claimed it for Virginia; but certainly I have never made such a claim. The idea, I suppose, has been taken
- 6 These proceedings had thrown the people into violent ferment. It gained the soldiery, first of the French guards, extended to those of every other denomination, except the Swiss, and even to the body guards of the King. They began to quit their barracks,
- 5 Spain had just concluded a treaty with Algiers, at the expense of three millions of dollars, and did not like to relinquish the benefit of that, until the other party should fail in their observance of it. Portugal, Naples, the Two Sicilies, Venice, Malta
- 4 On the subject of the Criminal law, all were agreed, that the punishment of death should be abolished, except for treason and murder; and that, for other felonies, should be subst.i.tuted hard labor in the public works, and, in some cases, the _Lex talion
- 3 The declaration thus signed on the 4th, on paper, was engrossed on parchment, and signed again on the 2nd of August.[* Some erroneous statements of the proceedings on the Declaration of Independence having got before the public in latter times, Mr. Samuel
- 2 That till this, they would not receive our vessels into their ports, nor acknowledge the adjudications of our courts of admiralty to be legitimate, in cases of capture of British vessels: That though France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power, th
- 1 Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.PREFACE.The opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound s