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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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........
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 51 TO COLONEL HUMPHREYS.Paris, December 4,1785.Dear Sir, I enclose you a letter from Gatteaux, observing that there will be an anachronism, if, in making a medal to commemorate the victory of Saratoga, he puts on General Gates the insignia of the Cincinnati,
- 52 and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CXLIV.--TO THE GEORGIA DELEGATES IN CONGRESS, Dec. 22, 1785 TO THE GEORGIA DELEGATES IN CONGRESS.Paris, December 22, 1785.Gentlemen, By my despatch to Mr. Jay which accompanies this, you will perceive that the
- 53 In the course of this conversation, he had mentioned the liberty we enjoyed of carrying our fish to the French islands. I repeated to him what I had hinted in my letter of November the 20th, 1785, that I considered as a prohibition, the laying such duties
- 54 All is quiet here. There are indeed two specks in the horizon: the exchange of Bavaria, and the demarcation between the Emperor and Turks.We may add as a third, the interference by the King of Prussia in the domestic disputes of the Dutch. Great Britain,
- 55 The first Congress which met being composed mostly of persons who had been members of the legislatures of their respective States, it was natural for them to adopt those rules in their proceedings, to which they had been accustomed in their legislative ho
- 56 Every one is sensible how this is to be ultimately settled. Neither the British creditor, nor the State, will be permitted to lose by these payments. The debtor will be credited for what he paid, according to what it was really worth at the time he paid i
- 57 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CLIII.--TO A. STEWART, January 25, 1786 TO A. STEWART.Paris, January 25, 1786.Dear Sir, I have received your favor of the 17th of October, which, though you mention it as the third you have written me, is the first that has come to ha
- 58 Dear Sir, I am honored with yours of January the 19th. Mine of January the 12th, had not, I suppose, at that time got to your hands, as the receipt of it is unacknowledged. I shall be anxious till I receive your answer to it.I was perfectly satisfied befo
- 59 Sir, Circ.u.mstances of public duty calling me suddenly to London, I take the liberty of mentioning it to your Excellency, and of asking a few minutes' audience of you, at as early a day and hour as will be convenient to you, and that you will be so good
- 60 Kaskaskias, Illinois, April 29,1779.Dear Sir, A few days ago, I received certain intelligence of William Morris, my express to you, being killed near the falls of Ohio, news truly disagreeable to me, as I fear many of my letters will fall into the hands o
- 61 Mrs. Blackburn (for Prince William), seven thousand five hundred and six dollars, paper money. Mrs. Randolph, the younger, of Chatsworth, eight hundred dollars. Mrs. Fitzhugh and others, 558. [NOTE E.]--FROM LORD CORNWALLIS Lord Cornwalliss Letter to Lieu
- 62 Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.VOLUME TWO LETTER I.--TO RICHARD HENRY LEE, April 22, 1786 TO RICHARD HENRY LEE.London, April 22, 1786.Dear Sir, In your letter of October the 29th, you desi
- 63 LETTER IX.--TO MR. DUMAS, May 6, 1789 TO MR. DUMAS.Paris, May 6, 1789.Sir, Having been absent in England, for some time past, your favors of February the 27th, March the 28th, and April the 11th, have not been acknowledged so soon as they should have been
- 64 LETTER XIV.--TO T. PLEASANTS, May 8,1786 TO T. PLEASANTS.Paris, May 8,1786.Dear Sir, At the time of the receipt of your favor of October the 24th, the contract between the Farmers General and Mr. Morris, for tobacco, was concluded, and in a course of exec
- 65 I had a good deal of conversation with him, also, on the situation of affairs between England and the United States: and particularly, on their refusal to deliver up our posts. I observed to him, that the obstructions thrown in the way of the recovery of
- 66 The King's visit to Cherbourg has made a great sensation in England and here. It proves to the world, that it is a serious object to this country, and that the King commits himself for the accomplishment of it. Indeed, so many cones have been sunk, that
- 67 Paris, August 11, 1786.Dear Sir, I wrote you last on the 9th of July; and since that, have received yours of the 16th of June, with the interesting intelligence it contained.I was entirely in the dark as to the progress of that negotiation, and concur ent
- 68 Advance, then, with caution, the balance in your hand. Put into one scale the pleasures which any object may offer; but put fairly into the other the pains which are to follow, and see which preponderates. The making an acquaintance is not a matter of ind
- 69 Being unwilling that Alexandria should lose its pretensions, I have undertaken to procure them information as to that place. If they undertake this trade at all, it will be on so great a scale as to decide the current of the Indian-trade to the place they
- 70 My Notes on Virginia, having been hastily written, need abundance of corrections. Two or three of these are so material, that I am reprinting a few leaves to subst.i.tute for the old. As soon as these shall be ready, I will beg your acceptance of a copy.
- 71 My last, of December the 31st, acknowledged the receipt of yours of October the 12th, as the present does those of October the 3rd, 9th, and 27th, together with the resolution of Congress of October the 16th, on the claim of Schweighaeuser. I will proceed
- 72 LETTER XLIII.--TO COLONEL EDWARD CARRINGTON, January 16, 1787 TO COLONEL EDWARD CARRINGTON.Paris, January 16, 1787.Dear Sir, Uncertain whether you might be at New York at the moment of Colonel Franks' arrival, I have enclosed my private letters for Virgi
- 73 A treaty of commerce is certainly concluded between France and Russia.The particulars of it are yet secret.I enclose the gazettes of France and Leyden to this date, and have the honor of a.s.suring you of those sentiments of perfect esteem and respect, wi
- 74 Mr. Morris, during his office, being authorized to have the medals and swords executed, which had been ordered by Congress, he authorized Colonel Humphreys to take measures here for the execution. Colonel Humphreys did so; and the swords were finished in
- 75 LETTER LV.--TO WILLIAM SHORT, April 12, 1787 TO WILLIAM SHORT.Nice, April 12, 1787, Dear Sir, At Ma.r.s.eilles, they told me I should encounter the rice fields of Piedmont soon after crossing the Alps. Here they tell me there are none nearer than Vercelli
- 76 CHAMPAGNE. March 3. _Sens_ to _Vermanton_. The face of the country is in large hills, not too steep for the plough, somewhat resembling the Elk hill and Beaver-dam hills of Virginia. The soil is generally a rich mulatto loam, with a mixture of coa.r.s.e s
- 77 There are no tides in the Mediterranean. It is observed to me, that the olive tree grows nowhere more than thirty leagues distant from that sea.I suppose, however, that both Spain and Portugal furnish proofs to the contrary, and doubt its truth as to Asia
- 78 _Avignon. Remoulins_. Some good plains, but generally hills, stony and poor. In olives, mulberries, vines, and corn. Where it is waste the growth is _chene-vert_, box, furze, thyme, and rosemary.May 10. _Lismes. Lunel_. Hills on the right, plains on the l
- 79 Dear Sir, Having got back to Paris three days ago, I resume immediately the correspondence with which you have been pleased to honor me. I wish I could have begun it with more agreeable information than that furnished me by Mr. Grand, that the funds of th
- 80 Mr. Barclay has probably informed you of his having been arrested in Bordeaux, for a debt contracted in the way of his commerce. He immediately applied to the parliament of that place, who ordered his discharge. This took place after five days' actual im
- 81 Paris, July 2, 1787.I am sorry, my Dear Sir, that your interest should be affected by the ill behavior of Barrois. But when you consider the facts, you will be sensible that I could not have indulged his indolence further, without increasing the injury to
- 82 LETTER LXX.--TO THE COUNT DE MONTMORIN, July 23, 1787 TO THE COUNT DE MONTMORIN.Paris, July 23, 1787.Sir, I had the honor, a few days ago, of putting into the hands of your Excellency, some observations on the other articles of American produce, brought i
- 83 The almond tree is also so precarious, that none can depend for subsistence on its produce, but persons of capital.The caper, though a more tender plant, is more certain in its produce, because a mound of earth of the size of a cuc.u.mber hill, thrown ove
- 84 Th: Jefferson, LETTER LXXVIII.--TO DR. CURRIE, August 4, 1787 TO DR. CURRIE.Paris, August 4, 1787.Dear Sir, I am favored with your letter of May the 2nd, and most cordially sympathize in your late immense losses. It is a situation in which a man needs the
- 85 LETTER Lx.x.xII.--TO JOHN CHURCHMAN, August 8, 1787 TO JOHN CHURCHMAN.Paris, August 8, 1787.Sir, I have duly received your favor of June the 6th, and immediately communicated its contents to a member of the Academy. He told me that they had received the o
- 86 LETTER Lx.x.xVI.--TO JOSEPH JONES, August 14, 1787 TO JOSEPH JONES.Paris, August 14, 1787.Dear Sir, I have never yet thanked you, but with the heart, for the act of a.s.sembly confirming the agreement with Maryland, the pamphlet, and papers, I received fr
- 87 LETTER XC.--TO JOHN ADAMS, August 30, 1787 TO JOHN ADAMS.Paris, August 30, 1787.Dear Sir, Since your favor of July the 10th, mine have been of July the 17th, 23rd, and 28th. The last enclosed a bill of exchange from Mr. Grand, on Tessier, for 46. 17s. 10d
- 88 I answered you, accordingly, that there were none. But when I was at Nismes, I went to see the steam-mill there, and they showed it to me in all its parts. I saw that their steam raised water, and that this water turned a wheel. I expressed my doubts of t
- 89 I have the honor to be, with my best respects to Mrs. Adams, and sentiments of perfect esteem and regard to yourself, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson LETTER XCIX.--TO COLONEL SMITH, September 28,1787 TO COLONEL SMITH.Paris,
- 90 I am, Dear Sir, your affectionate friend and servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CIV.--TO JOHN JAY, October 8, 1787 TO JOHN JAY.(Private.) Paris, October 8, 1787.Dear Sir, The Count de Moustier, Minister Plenipotentiary from the court of Versailles to the Unite
- 91 I take the liberty of troubling your Excellency on the subject of the _Arret_, which has lately appeared, for prohibiting the importation of whale-oils and spermaceti, the produce of foreign fisheries. This prohibition, being expressed in general terms, s
- 92 LETTER CXII.--TO THE COUNT DE MONTMORIN, November 6, 1787 TO THE COUNT DE MONTMORIN.Sir, Paris, November 6, 1787.I take the liberty of asking your Excellency's perusal of the enclosed case of an American hostage, confined in the prisons of Dunkirk. His c
- 93 LETTER CXVI.--TO JOHN ADAMS TO JOHN ADAMS.Paris, December 12, 1787.Dear Sir, In the month of July, I received from Fiseaux & Co. of Amsterdam, a letter notifying me that the princ.i.p.al of their loan to the United States would become due the first day of
- 94 I have the honor to be, with much esteem, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CXX.--TO JOHN JAY, December 31, 1787 TO JOHN JAY.Paris, December 31, 1787.Sir, Since the receipt of the letter of Monsieur de Calonne, of October the 2
- 95 Dear Sir, I should have sooner answered your favor of January the 2nd, but that we have expected for some time, to see you here. I beg you not to think of the trifle I furnished you with, nor to propose to return it, till you shall have that sum more than
- 96 LETTER CXXVIII.--TO JOHN ADAMS, March 2, 1788 TO JOHN ADAMS.Paris, March 2, 1788.--Sunday.Dear Sir, I received this day, a letter from Mrs. Adams, of the 26th ultimo, informing me you would set out on the 29th for the Hague. Our affairs at Amsterdam press
- 97 The war between the Russians and Turks has made an opening for our Commodore Paul Jones. The Empress has invited him into her service.She insures to him the rank of rear-admiral; will give him a separate command, and it is understood, that he is never to
- 98 Sir, When I wrote my letter of the 4th instant, I had no reason to doubt that a packet would have sailed on the 10th, according to the established order. The pa.s.sengers had all, except one, gone down to Havre in this expectation. However, none has saile
- 99 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CXL.*--TO JAMES MADISON, May 28, 1788 TO JAMES MADISON.Paris, May 28, 1788.Dear Sir, The enclosed letter for Mr. Jay, being of a private nature. I have thought it better to put it under your cover, lest it might be opened by some of h
- 100 A dispute arising between two subjects of France, the one being in France and the other in the United States, the regular tribunals of France would seem ent.i.tled to a preference of jurisdiction. Yet the twelfth article gives it to their consul in Americ