Paris Letters for the years 1767 thru 1878

Paris, FRA - 14 September 1767

Soon after I left you in that agreable Society at Bromley, I took the Resolution of making a Trip with Sir John Pringle into France.

Paris, FR - 18 August 1776

M. Penet had somehow got intelligence of my being in France, and that I was expected at Paris ; he, therefore, waited for me, and I saw him the next day at my hotel

Paris, FR - 22 August 1776

I was this morning informed of the arrival of Mr Arthur Lee, and that he would be in Paris tomorrow. This was surprising to me, as I knew of no particular affair that might call him here

Paris, FR - 30 September 1776

To solicit arms, clothing, and tents for thirty thousand men, two hundred brass cannon, mortars, and other stores in proportion, and to be destitute of one shilling of ready-money

Paris, FR - 1 October 1776

For me, alas ! I had nothing left but to make the most positive assertions, that no accommodation would or could take place, and to pledge myself in the strongest possible manner, that thus would turn out the event

Paris, FR - 8 October 1776

Your Declaration of the fourth of July last has given this Court, as well as several others in Europe, reason to expect you would in form announce your Independency to them, and ask their friendship

Paris, FR - 17 October 1776

I once more put pen to paper, not to attempt, what is absolutely beyond the power of language to paint, my distressed situation here, totally destitute of intelligence or instructions from you since I left America

Paris, FR - 17 October 1776

The bearer, Mons. M. Martin de la Balme, has long served with reputation in the armies of France as a Captain of Cavalry, and is now advanced to the rank of a Lt Colonel

Paris, FR - 17 October 1776

My request is, that you would inquire into the state of that island, by proper emissaries, and if the Caribs are disposed to revolt, encourage them and promise them aid of arms and ammunition.

Paris, FR - 20 October 1776

I have purchased two hundred tons of powder, and ordered the sarae to be shipped to Martinique to the care of Mons. Deant, to the direction of Mr Bingham for your use.

Paris, FR - 25 October 1776

I have received no letter from you since those of the 4th and 5th of August last, nor any intelligence from Congress since the 5th June, which not only surprises but distresses me.

Paris, FR - 6 November 1776

If the Congress do not mean to apply for foreign alliances, let me entreat you to say so, and rescind your resolutions published on that head, which will he but justice to the powers of Europe

Paris, FR - 9 November 1776

The want of intelligence retards every thing ; as I have not a word from you since the 5th of June last, I am well nigh distracted.

Paris, FR - 26 November 1776

This serves only to enclose and explain the within State of the Commerce of Leghorn, which was given me by the Envoy of the Grand Duke of Tuscany

Paris, FR - 27 November 1776

The bearer, Mr Rogers, is a native of Maryland, whom I fortunately met in the hotel I some months lodged in.

Paris, FR - 27 November 1776

Admiral Montague lately returned from the Banks, where the fishermen have had a wretched season, in consequence of the American privateers.

Paris, FR - 28 November 1776

This letter was very far from relieving me, as it enclosed what had been circulated through Europe for two months before, and my pretending to inform this Court would be only a matter of form

Paris, FR - 29 November 1776

I should never have completed what I have, but for the generous, the indefatigable and spirited exertions of Monsieur Beaumarchais, to whom the United States are on every account greatly indebted

Paris, FR - 29 November 1776

I have recommended several officers to your service, but none with greater pleasure, scarce any one with so much confidence of his answering great and valuable purposes, as the bearer, Colonel Conway

Paris, FR - 1 December 1776

Among the many important objects, which employ your whole attention, I presume ways and means for defraying the expenses of the present war have a capital place.

Paris, FR - 3 December 1776

Immediately on my arrival, I sent forward your bills, a large part of which were protested, and intelligence arriving of the loss of Canada, and that Carleton was even on the frontiers of the Colonies

Paris, FR - 3 December 1776

If my letters arrive safe they will give you some idea of my situation. Without intelligence, without orders, and without remittances, yet boldly plunging into contracts, engagements, and negotiations, hourly hoping that something will arrive from Am

Paris, FR - 6 December 1776

You have enclosed the duplicate of an agreement with Mons. du Coudray, of my orders for clothing, stores, &c.

Paris, FR - 8 December 1776

I received last evening a letter from my friend, Dr Franklin, at Nantes, which place he was to leave last sunday morning, so that I expect him in Paris this day

Paris, FR - 12 December 1776

Just as I had closed my despatches by the Generals de Coudray and Baron de Kalb, I was most agreeably surprised with a letter from Dr Franklin, at Nantes, where he arrived

Paris, FRA - 11 January 1777

Lord Stormont discovered that these vessels were employed by Silas Deane, and the cargoes intended for America. He went immediately, at an unusual hour for business, to Versailles

Paris, FR - 20 January 1777

I have met with disappointments, unexpected as they have been affecting ; after orders and counter orders and manoeuvres, the very history of which would fill a volume

Paris, FR - 6 February 1777

The bearer, Mons. Holtzendorff, is a Prussian officer, who served the last war in Germany, and with reputation. Gentlemen of first character in the army here have recommended him

Paris, FR - 27 February 1777

This will be delivered you by Captain Gov, who, with his lieutenant and two sergeants, embarks with thirty field pieces, ten ton of powder, ball, lead, he. which I wish safe and in season for service

Paris, FR - 8 April 1777

The bearer. Viscount Mourreu, is the gentleman of whom I formerly wrote, and who has been long detained by a variety of accidents, which he can relate to you at large.

Paris, FR - 23 August 1777

I mean to give you a short view of the conduct of this Court, with respect to American ships of war, private as well as public, which I cannot well do without giving you a history of facts.

Paris, FR - 3 September 1777

Captain Landais is the bearer of this. He goes in the Heureuse, loaded with stores for America.

Paris, FR - 10 September 1777

This will be handed you by M. Francy, who is agent for Messrs Rodrique Hortalez & Co. You will see by the bills of lading, the quantity of stores shipped by that house, and make some judgment

Paris, FR - 23 September 1777

I take the liberty of enclosing an extract of a letter written jointly by Dr Franklin and myself in March last

Paris, FRA - 16 February 1780

The English bounce a great deal about obtaining seven thousand troops from the petty German princes and ten thousand from Ireland to send to America, but this is only a repetition of their annual gasconade.

Paris, FRA - 23 February 1780

THE children made me a visit to-day, and went with me to dine with my old friends, the two Abbes, whom you have often heard me mention, Chalut and Arnoux

Paris, FRA - 17 June 1780

I YESTERDAY received a letter of the 26th of April from brother Cranch, for which I thank him and will answer as soon as possible. He tells me you have drawn a little bill upon me.

Paris, FR - 10 May 1781

On my arriving in France, I applied to Mr Johnson to appoint a time for examining my accounts and vouchers, which I told him would soon be ready.

Paris, FRA - 4 December 1782

YOUR proposal of coming to Europe has long and tenderly affected me. The dangers and inconveniences are such, and a European life would be so dis agreeable to you, that I have suffered a great deal of anxiety in reflecting upon it.

Paris, FRA - 28 December 1782

I DARE say there is not a lady in America treated with a more curious dish of politics than is contained in the enclosed papers.

Paris, FRA - 18 February 1783

I have written to Congress a resignation, but I foresee there will not be a speedy decision upon it, and I shall be left in a state of suspense that will be intolerable.

Paris, FRA - 27 February 1783

No. Let us live in our own country, and in our own way, educate our children to be good for some thing. Upon no consideration whatever would I have any of my children educated in Europe.

Paris, FRA - 8 April 1783

WHAT would I not give for an arrival from America, or for certain advice from London of the appointment of a ministry, or for the arrival here of a minister to sign the definitive treaty ?

Paris, FRA - 30 May 1783

HERE I am out of all patience. Not a word from America. The British ministry lingering on. Mr. Hartley uncertain what to do. No regulation of commerce agreed on. No definitive treaty of peace signed

Paris, FRA - 19 June 1783

I know not whether my resignation is accepted, and consequently can give you no conjecture when I shall be able to get away.

Paris, FRA - 13 July 1783

I see you at the glorious end of all your toils, and with the desire to come to France. Try, my dear General, to effectuate this project. Let nothing oppose itself to the idea.

Paris, FRA - 7 September 1783

Mr. Laurens has leave to go home, and Mr. Dana is gone, so that there remain in service only Mr. Franklin, Mr. Jay, and myself. In these circumstances I must stay another winter.

Paris, FRA - 10 September 1783

John Quincy Adams letter to mother... As you have ordered me in a letter ... to give you my observations on the countries thro which I have travelled, the following are some upon Russia

Paris, FRA - 10 September 1783

WE have received from Congress a resolution by which we are to be empowered to negotiate a treaty of commerce with Great Britain, myself, Mr. Franklin and Mr. Jay.

Paris, FRA - 9 March 1784

Had I not so perfect a confidence in your friendship, I should very much fear to tire you with my scribbling of this day ; but cannot leave my pen before I have again mentioned my tender, respectful affection to my dear General.

Paris, FRA - 16 October 1784

I hope your public appointment will prove an agreeable surprise to you on your arrival, and that you will be able to reconcile the acceptance of it to every consideration of private interest and convenience, as well as public duty.

Paris, FRA - 20 October 1784

Thomas Jefferson letter to Uriah Forrest... It is, however, our private opinion, which we give as individuals, only, that Mr. McLanahan, while in England, is subject to the laws of England.

Paris, FRA - 15 February 1785

the King is concerned that your domestic affairs deprive him of the satisfaction to see a man, whose talents and virtues have procured the happiness of his country, and excited the admiration of all others.

Paris, FRA - 11 May 1785

Thomas Jefferson letter to John Jay... appointing me their Minister Plenipotentiary at this court...

Paris, FRA - 7 June 1785

Thomas Jefferson letter to GENERAL CHASTELLUX... It is possible, that in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation...

Paris, FRA - 16 June 1785

In a letter of January the 12th, to Governor Harrison, I informed him of the necessity that the statuary should see General Washington; that we should accordingly send him over unless the Executive disapproved of it

Paris, FRA - 17 June 1785

I am much pleased with Otto's appointment; he is good-humored, affectionate to America, will see things in a friendly light when they admit of it, in a rational one always, and will not pique himself on writing every trifling circumstance of irritati

Paris, FRA - 21 June 1785

The political world is almost lulled to sleep by the lethargic state of the Dutch negotiation, which will probably end in peace.

Paris, FRA - 22 June 1785

Our latest letters from America are of the middle of April, and are extremely barren of news. Congress had not yet proposed a time for their recess, though it was thought a recess would take place.

Paris, FRA - 23 June 1785

What is become of this Mr. Lambe? I am uneasy at the delay of that business, since we know the ultimate decision of Congress.

Paris, FRA - 4 July 1785

My dear General, This letter will be delivered by the celebrated M. Houdon, who is going, for your statue, to America.

Paris, FRA - 5 July 1785

Little has occurred since my last. Peace seems to show herself under a more decided form. The Emperor is now on a journey to Italy, and the two Dutch Plenipotentiaries have set out for Vienna

Paris, FRA - 5 July 1785

I wish you may be rightly informed that the property of Mr. Sprowle is yet unsold. It was advertised so long ago, as to found a presumption that the sale has taken place. In any event, you may safely go to Virginia.

Paris, FRA - 7 July 1785

We daily expect from the Baron Thulemeyer the French column for our treaty with his sovereign.

Paris, FRA - 10 July 1785

Mr. Houdon would much sooner have had the honor of attending you, but for a spell of sickness, which long induced us to despair of his recovery, and from which he is but recently recovered.

Paris, FRA - 11 July 1785

Mr. Houdon's long and desperate illness has retarded, till now, his departure for Virginia. We had hoped, from our first conversations with him, that it would be easy to make our terms, and that the cost of the statue and expense of sending him, woul

Paris, FRA - 12 July 1785

You are right in supposing all letters opened which come either through the French or English channel, unless trusted to a passenger. Yours had evidently been opened, and I think I never received one through the post office which had not been.

Paris, FRA - 12 July 1785

In consequence of the orders of the legislative and executive bodies of Virginia, I have engaged Monsieur Houdon to make the statue of General General Washington. For this purpose it is necessary for him to see the General.

Paris, FRA - 12 July 1785

While Captain Jones was hovering on the coast of England, in the year 1779, a British pilot, John Jackson by name, came on board him, supposing him to be British. Captain Jones found it convenient to detain him as a pilot

Paris, FRA - 13 July 1785

I am glad to hear that the Council have ordered restitution of the merchandise seized at L'Orient, contrary to the freedom of the place.

Paris, FRA - 13 July 1785

I am very sensible that no trade can be on a more desperate footing than that of tobacco, in this country; and that our merchants must abandon the French markets, if they are not permitted to sell the productions they bring

Paris, FRA - 17 July 1785

But why, you will ask, do I send you old almanacs, which are proverbially useless? Because, in these publications have appeared, from time to time, some of the most precious things in astronomy.

Paris, FRA - 28 July 1785

Mr. Short sets out immediately. I have put into his hands a letter of instructions how to conduct himself, which I have signed, leaving a space above for your signature.

Paris, FRA - 29 July 1785

Congress, having made a very considerable purchase of land from the Indians, have established a land office, and settled the mode of selling the lands. Their plan is judicious.

Paris, FRA - 30 July 1785

Supposing that the funds, which are the object of your inquiry, are those which constitute what we call our domestic debt, it is my opinion that they are absolutely secure: I have no doubt at all but that they will be paid

Paris, FRA - 31 July 1785

When the first article of our instructions of May 7th, 1784, was under debate in Congress, it was proposed that neither party should make the other pay, in their ports, greater duties, than they paid in the ports of the other.

Paris, FRA - 3 August 1785

The enclosed copy of a letter from Captain John Paul Jones, on the subject on which your Excellency did me the honor to write me, on the day of July, will inform you that there is still occasion to be troublesome to you.

Paris, FRA - 3 August 1785

Will you be so good as to make an inquiry into all the circumstances relative to Peyrouse's expedition, which seem to ascertain his destination.

Paris, FRA - 6 August 1785

I now enclose you a draught of a treaty for the Barbary States, together with the notes Benjamin Franklin left me.

Paris, FRA - 7 August 1785

The concern you therein express as to the effect of your pamphlet in America, induces me to trouble you with some observations on that subject.

Paris, FRA - 10 August 1785

The cause of the balance against this country in favor of England, as well as its amount, is not agreed on. No doubt, the rage for English manufactures must be a principal cause.

Paris, FRA - 10 August 1785

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?

Paris, FRA - 13 August 1785

I write by Mr. Cairnes merely to inform you, that I have, as yet, received no answer from the Marechal de Castries. I am in daily expectation of one.

Paris, FRA - 13 August 1785

I wrote to you, acknowledging the receipt, and apprizing you, that between that date and the 1st of August, it would be impossible to procure, and get to your hands, the drafts you desired.

Paris, FRA - 14 August 1785

I took an opportunity of asking the Count de Vergennes, whether the Chevalier Luzerne proposed to return to America. He answered me that he did; and that he was here, for a time only, to arrange his private affairs.

Paris, FRA - 15 August 1785

In the conversation which I had the honor of having with your Excellency, a few days ago, on the importance of placing, at this time, the commerce between France and America on the best footing possible

Paris, FRA - 17 August 1785

he has not been able to get an authentic roll of the crew of the Alliance, and that, in the probable case of there having been some French subjects among them, it will be just that you should give security to repay their portions.

Paris, FRA - 18 August 1785

I see with extreme satisfaction and gratitude, the friendly interposition of the court of Spain with the Emperor of Morocco, on the subject of the brig Betsy, and I am persuaded it will produce the happiest effects in America.

Paris, FRA - 20 August 1785

This correspondence is grateful to some of my warmest feelings, as the friendships of my youth are those which adhere closest to me, and in which I most confide. My principal happiness is now in the retrospect of life.

Paris, FRA - 23 August 1785

I shall sometimes ask your permission to write you letters, not official, but private. The present is of this kind, and is occasioned by the question proposed in yours of June the 14th; 'Whether it would be useful to us, to carry all our own producti

Paris, FRA - 28 August 1785

Every thing looks like peace here. The settlement between the Emperor and Dutch is not yet published, but it is believed to be agreed on.

Paris, FRA - 29 August 1785

I pray you to furnish me with all the evidence you can, as to what French subjects may be entitled to any part of the monies you will receive, and to how much, each of them

Paris, FRA - 30 August 1785

I enclose you a correspondence which has taken place between the Marechal de Castries, minister of the Marine, and myself. It is on the subject of the prize-money, due to the officers and crew of the Alliance

Paris, FRA - 0 September 1785

That the United States of America, heretofore connected in government with Great Britain, had found it necessary for their happiness to separate from her, and to assume an independent station.

Paris, FRA - 1 September 1785

All is quiet here. The Emperor and Dutch have certainly agreed, though they have not published their agreement. Most of his schemes in Germany must be postponed, if they are not prevented by the confederacy of many of the Germanic body

Paris, FRA - 1 September 1785

On a review of our letters to the Baron de Thulemeyer, I do not find that we had proposed that the treaty should be in two columns, the one English, and the other what he should think proper.

Paris, FRA - 4 September 1785

Supposing that we should begin with the Emperor of Morocco, a letter to the Emperor and instructions to Mr. Barclay, seemed necessary. I have therefore sketched such outlines for these, as appear to me to be proper.

Paris, FRA - 5 September 1785

With respect to America, I will rather give you a general view of its situation, than merely relate recent events.

Paris, FRA - 6 September 1785

You are now too distant from America, to be much interested in what passes there. From the London gazettes, and the papers copying them, you are led to suppose that all there is anarchy, discontent, and civil war.

Paris, FRA - 11 September 1785

Your Captain Yeaton being here, furnishes me an opportunity of paying the tribute of my congratulations on your appointment to the government of your State, which I do sincerely.

Paris, FRA - 14 September 1785

Several of your letters have been received, and we have been occupied in endeavors to have you discharged: but these have been ineffectual. If our information be right, you are mistaken in supposing you are already condemned.

Paris, FRA - 19 September 1785

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 the treaties.

Paris, FRA - 20 September 1785

I received this summer a letter from Messrs. Buchanan and Hay, as Directors of the public buildings desiring I would have drawn for them plans of sundry buildings, and, in the first place, of a capital.

Paris, FRA - 20 September 1785

Being in your debt for ten volumes of Buffon, I have endeavored to find something that would be agreeable to you to receive, in return.

Paris, FRA - 24 September 1785

The sentiments you therein expressed, were such as were entertained in America till the commercial proclamation, and such as would again return, were a rational conduct to be adopted by Great Britain.

Paris, FRA - 24 September 1785

I transmit you herewith, copies of the papers he brought to us on the subject of the Barbary treaties. You will see by them, that Congress have adopted the very plan which we were proposing to pursue.

Paris, FRA - 25 September 1785

I do not altogether despair of making something of your method of quilling, though, as yet, the prospect is not favorable. I applaud much your perseverance in improving this instrument

Paris, FRA - 26 September 1785

I now wait for the letter from your lawyer, as, till I know the real nature and state of your process, it is impossible for me to judge what can be done for you here.

Paris, FRA - 26 September 1785

I received, a few days ago, your favor of the 10th of June, and am to thank you for the trouble you have given yourself, to procure me information on the subject of the commerce of your State.

Paris, FRA - 29 September 1785

I have received your letter, and shall exert myself for you. Be assured of hearing from me soon

Paris, FRA - 30 September 1785

The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.

Paris, FRA - 2 October 1785

You therein speak of a new method of raising water by steam, which you suppose will come into general use. I know of no new method of that kind

Paris, FRA - 5 October 1785

We have no public news worth communicating to you, but the signing of preliminaries between the Emperor and Dutch. The question is, then, with whom the Emperor will pick the next quarrel.

Paris, FRA - 5 October 1785

It was with very sincere pleasure I heard of your appointment to the board of treasury, as well from the hope that it might not be disagreeable to yourself, as from the confidence that your administration would be wise.

Paris, FRA - 6 October 1785

The Emperor and Dutch have signed preliminaries, which are now made public. You will see them in the papers which accompany this. They still leave a good deal to discussion.

Paris, FRA - 11 October 1785

I received, last night, the letter signed by yourself and the other gentlemen, delegates of Massachusetts and Virginia, recommending Mr. Sayre for the Barbary negotiations.

Paris, FRA - 11 October 1785

I have the honor of enclosing to your Excellency, a report of the voyage of an American ship, the first which has gone to China.

Paris, FRA - 12 October 1785

With respect to the expediency of the arrangement you propose to make with Mr. Parker, I must observe to you, that it would be altogether out of my province to give an official opinion, for your direction.

Paris, FRA - 12 October 1785

There are, in the prison of St. Pol de Lon, six or seven citizens of the United States of America, charged with having attempted a contraband of tobacco, but, as they say themselves, forced into that port by stress of weather.

Paris, FRA - 13 October 1785

The British government, as you may naturally suppose, have it much at heart to reconcile their nation to the loss of America. This is essential to the repose, perhaps even to the safety of the King and his ministers.

Paris, FRA - 15 October 1785

I should sooner have answered the paragraph in your letter, of September the 19th, respecting the best seminary for the education of youth, in Europe, but that it was necessary for me to make inquiries on the subject.

Paris, FRA - 18 October 1785

the constant expectation of the departure of the persons whom I formerly gave you reason to expect, has prevented my writing, as it has done yours.

Paris, FRA - 25 October 1785

In order to give you the information you desire, on the subject of the liquidated debts of the United States, and the comparative footing on which they stand, I must observe to you, that the first and great division of our federal debt, is...

Paris, FRA - 4 November 1785

At length a confidential opportunity arrives for conveying to you a cipher; it will be handed you by the bearer, Mr, Lambe. Copies of it are in the hands of Mr. Adams, at London

Paris, FRA - 4 November 1785

Mr. Adams, the American minister at London, and myself, have agreed to authorize the bearer hereof, Mr. Lambe, to treat for your redemption, and that of your companions taken in American vessels

Paris, FRA - 12 November 1785

The freedom of commerce between Ireland and America is undoubtedly very interesting to both countries. If fair play be given to the natural advantages of Ireland, she must come in for a distinguished share of that commerce.

Paris, FRA - 14 November 1785

I take the liberty of troubling your Excellency on behalf of six citizens of the United States, who have been for some time confined in the prison of St. Pol de Lon, and of referring for particulars to the enclosed state of their case. Some of the ma

Paris, FRA - 19 November 1785

This has led to discussions with the ministers, which give us a hope that we may get the duties taken off in perpetuum. This done, a most abundant market for our oil will be opened by this country

Paris, FRA - 20 November 1785

I am equally persuaded they will pay the most serious attention to that part of your Excellency's letter, which mentions the information you have received of certain acts or regulations of navigation and commerce, passed in some of the United States

Paris, FRA - 23 November 1785

I have sent to the Count de Vergennes a statement of your case, of which the enclosed is a copy. I wish you would read it over, and if there be any fact stated in it, which is wrong, let me know it

Paris, FRA - 27 November 1785

I sincerely rejoice that Portugal is stepping forward in the business of treaty, and that there is a probability that we may at length do something under our commissions, which may produce a solid benefit to our constituents.

Paris, FRA - 4 December 1785

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, which did not exist at that date.

Paris, FRA - 10 December 1785

On the arrival of Mr. Boylston, I carried him to the Marquis De La Fayette, who received from him communications of his object. This was to get a remission of the duties on his cargo of oil

Paris, FRA - 11 December 1785

You know the immense amount of Beaumarchais' accounts with the United States, and that Mr. Barclay was authorized to settle them. Beaumarchais had pertinaciously insisted on settling them with Congress.

Paris, FRA - 21 December 1785

It is on the case of Asquith and others, citizens of the United States, in whose behalf I had taken the liberty of asking your interference.

Paris, FRA - 22 December 1785

The death of the late General Oglethorpe, who had considerable possessions in Georgia, has given rise, as we understand, to questions whether these possessions have become the property of the State, or have been transferred by his will to his widow

Paris, FRA - 22 December 1785

you will perceive that the claims of the Chevalier de Mezieres, nephew to the late General Oglethorpe, to his possessions within your State, have attracted the attention of the ministry here

Paris, FRA - 27 December 1785

You have been consulted in the case of the Chevalier de Mezieres, nephew to General Oglethorpe, and are understood to have given an opinion derogatory of our treaty with France.

Paris, FRA - 2 January 1786

Several conferences and letters having passed between the Count de Vergennes and myself, on the subject of the commerce of this country with the United States, I think them sufficiently interesting to be communicated to Congress.

Paris, FRA - 3 January 1786

He showed me his first invention; the price of the machine was twenty-five guineas: then his second, which he had been able to make for about half that sum. Both of these had a mainspring and a balance-wheel, for their mover and regulator.

Paris, FRA - 4 January 1786

have been honored with your letter of September the 26th, which was delivered me by Mr. Houdon, who is safely returned. He has brought with him the mould of the face only, having left the other parts of his work with his workmen to come by some other

Paris, FRA - 7 January 1786

The very few of my countrymen who happen to be punctual, will find their punctuality a misfortune to them. Of this I shall give you a proof by the present application, which I should not make to you, if I did not know you to be superior to the torpid

Paris, FRA - 12 January 1786

I immediately made inquiries on the subject of the frigate you had authorized your relation to sell to this government, and I found that he had long before that sold her to government, and sold her very well, as I understood.

Paris, FRA - 13 January 1786

The reason I have not written to you for some time, has been the constant expectation of receiving an order for your discharge. I have not received it however.

Paris, FRA - 26 January 1786

I had the honor of writing to you on the receipt of your orders to procure draughts for the public buildings, and again on the 13th of August. In the execution of these orders, two methods of proceeding presented themselves to my mind.

Paris, FRA - 7 February 1786

I was perfectly satisfied before I received your letter, that your opinion had been misunderstood or misrepresented in the case of the Chevalier de Mezieres.

Paris, FRA - 8 February 1786

I have purchased little for you in the book way since I sent the catalogue of my former purchases. I wish, first, to have your answer to that, and your information, what parts of these purchases went out of your plan.

Paris, FRA - 9 February 1786

The Mr. John Ledyard, who proposes to undertake the journey through the northern parts of Asia and America, is a citizen of Connecticut, one of the United States of America.

Paris, FRA - 10 February 1786

The inclosed, my dear General, is a vocabulary which the Empress of Russia has requested me to have filled up with Indian names, as she has ordered a universal dictionary to be made of all languages.

Paris, FRA - 20 February 1786

America cannot but be flattered with the choice of the subject, on which you are at present employing your pen. The memory of the American Revolution will be immortal, and will immortalize those who record it.

Paris, FRA - 28 February 1786

Circumstances 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

Paris, FRA - 8 March 1786

His Excellency, Count de Vergennes, having been pleased to say that he would give orders at Calais, for the admission of certain articles which I wish to bring with me from England, I have thought it best to give a description of them, before my depa

Paris, FRA - 26 October 1786

I have been travelling through some garrison towns, in order to preserve the habit of seeing troops and their tactics. Now I am mostly at Fontainbleau, where the Court is residing for a few weeks.

Paris, FRA - 5 May 1787

he persuaded the King to assemble notable persons of each order, to please them with a plan of Assemblies in each Province, which was much desired, and to get their approbation for new taxes, with which he durst not, by himself, saddle the nation.

Paris, FRA - 15 October 1787

My dear General, I have a few days ago written to you by M. de Moustier, the new Minister from this Court. He is a sensible and honest man, with whom I think that the people of America will be satisfied.

Paris, FRA - 1 January 1788

It is needless for me to tell you, that I read the new proposed Constitution with an unspeakable eagerness and attention. I have admired it, and find in it a bold, large, and solid frame for the Confederation.

Paris, FRA - 25 May 1788

Permit me once more, my beloved General, to insist on your acceptance of the Presidency.

Paris, FRA - 23 February 1789

IF I should attempt, my dear Sir, to thank you for the kind introductions you have given me to your friends, I could not succeed in giving expression to my feelings.

Paris, FRA - 25 February 1789

From Holland I shall perhaps be obliged to go to England. But I contemplate, in all cases, a return to this capital, as speedily as possible ; and from hence I wish to go to Madrid.

Paris, FRA - 3 March 1789

Since that period, there are advices here, which announce the re-establishment of the King of Great Britain's health ; but from a letter I have just now received from the Marquis de la Luzerne, I am disposed to doubt the fact.

Paris, FRA - 4 March 1789

my present opinion is, that until some time after the States- General shall have assembled, this government will offer little or nothing for the contemplation of your department.

Paris, FRA - 18 April 1789

I am pretty well convinced that I am not fit for a traveller and yet I thought otherwise when I left America.

Paris, FRA - 29 April 1789

Monsieur de Lafayette is since returned from his political campaign in Auvers-ne, crowned with success. He had to contend with prejudices, and the interests of his order

Paris, FRA - 1 July 1789

I am too much occupied to find time for the use of a cipher, and in effect, the government here is so much occupied with their own affairs, that in transmitting to you a letter under an envelope, there is no risk.

Paris, FRA - 4 July 1789

A day now at length auspicious, since by the establishment of our new constitution we have the fair prospect of enjoying those good things, for which we have had so hard a contest.

Paris, FRA - 16 October 1789

I am convinced, that the proposed Constitution cannot serve for the government of this country ; that the National Assembly, late the object of enthusiastic attachment, will soon be treated with disrespect

Paris, FRA - 8 November 1789

Mr Jefferson is, you know, departed, with intention to return next spring. All the accounts received from our country are flattering. Freedom, order, and justice are established.

Paris, FRA - 22 January 1790

Yesterday I went to dine with the Count de Montmorin, and expressed to him my wish that France might seize the present moment to establish a liberal system of commercial policy for her Colonies.

Paris, FRA - 22 January 1790

In another letter of this date, I have mentioned a part of yesterday's conversation with the Count de Montmorin. That part of it, which I am now to communicate, is for yourself alone.

Paris, FRA - 22 January 1790

I shall, in consequence, set off for London as soon as I possibly can.

Paris, FRA - 22 January 1790

Yesterday I went to dine with the Count de Montmorin, and expressed to him my wish that France might seize the present moment to establish a liberal system of commercial policy for her colonies.

Paris, FRA - 24 January 1790

It gave me very sincere pleasure to learn from you the good tidings, which you communicate respecting our new form of government. I know that you are not liable to the dupery of false hopes and groundless expectations

Paris, FRA - 31 January 1790

M. Necker, pressed for money, had listened to overtures for selling the debt of the United States, and mentioned the matter to some members of the National Assembly, by which means it became known to the principal Americans, and friends of America he

Paris, FRA - 20 February 1790

You have seen the decree which has been made respecting tobacco, and which gives to French shipping a preference of above one hundred livres per ton over American.

Paris, FRA - 17 March 1790

Our revolution is getting on as well as it can, with a nation that has swallowed liberty at once, and is still liable to mistake licentiousness for freedom.

Paris, FRA - 28 August 1790

For God's sake, my dear General, take care of your health ! Do not devote yourself so much to the Cabinet, while your habit of life has, from your young years, accustomed you to constant exercise.

Paris, FRA - 12 September 1790

I see often some of them, who say you not only predicted what was to happen, but how ; they wish to consult you now, that you might tell them when the bankruptcy will arrive

Paris, FRA - 22 November 1790

My last letter was of the twenty-fourth of September. Since that period, I have passed through Flanders and a part of Germany, and having coasted the Rhine to Strasburg, came thence to this city.

Paris, FRA - 22 November 1790

The country I now inhabit, on which so many other countries depend, having sunk to absolute nothingness, has deranged the general state of things in every quarter

Paris, FRA - 1 December 1790

To begin then with our friend Lafayette, who has hitherto acted a splendid part. The King obeys but detests him. He obeys because he fears.

Paris, FRA - 26 February 1791

Pardon me while on this chapter, for expressing my apprehension that the sale of western lands will not produce the present relief expected, and it will consume a valuable future resource.

Paris, FRA - 7 March 1791

Whatever expectations I had conceived of a speedy termination to our revolutionary troubles, I still am tossed about in the ocean of factions and commotions of every kind.

Paris, FRA - 9 March 1791

In the debate on this subject one of the Lameths gave it as his opinion, that America was not in a situation to be either sought or feared for some time to come.

Paris, FRA - 16 March 1791

Since that period the Assembly have taken another step in the same disagreeable road. They have deprived all ships other than those built in France of the privilege of French bottoms.

Paris, FRA - 3 May 1791

The rage of parties, even among the patriots, is gone as far as it is possible, short of bloodshed ; but, although hatreds are far from subsiding, matters do not appear so ill disposed as they formerly were towards a collision among the supporters of

Paris, FRA - 27 May 1791

In a letter to Colonel Hamilton, of the 31st of January, 1790, I mentioned what had passed between M. Necker and me respecting the debt due by the United States to France

Paris, FRA - 6 June 1791

The Assembly has put an end to her existence by a new convocation ; has unfitted her own members for immediate reelection and places in the Executive; and is now reducing the Constitution to a few principal articles

Paris, FRA - 16 July 1791

The latest I have received from you is of the third of May. You will have heard, through various channels, of the King's escape from the Tuileries. By the bye, he was said to be in perfect liberty there

Paris, FRA - 20 July 1791

My last was of the sixteenth. The riot of that day went off pretty easily, but the next morning two men were lanterned and mangled in the Parisian taste. This occasioned some little stir.

Paris, FRA - 30 September 1791

The view which it gives of our prosperity as a nation swelled my bosom with emotions, which none can know but those who have experienced them.

Paris, FRA - 3 October 1791

I mentioned to you from London, that Mr Walpole had been offered the place of Envoy Extraordinary to the United States, which he had refused.

Paris, FRA - 10 October 1791

The people of this city are become wonderfully fond of the King, and have a thorough contempt for the Assembly, who are, in general, what used to be called in Philadelphia, the blue stockings.

Paris, FRA - 22 October 1791

Poor Lafayette ! Your letter for him must remain with me some time. His enemies here are as virulent as ever

Paris, FRA - 27 December 1791

I observe, that when a man purchases in France goods which are to be sold in England, he pays for those goods by the proceeds of bills drawn on England, and as he makes the acquisition of the goods with a view to the future sales

Paris, FRA - 14 May 1792

They have made the common mistake, that, to enjoy liberty, it is necessary only to demolish authority, and the common consequence results, viz. that the most ardent advocates for the revolution begin now to wish and pray, and even cry out for the est

Paris, FRA - 10 June 1792

My former letters have mentioned to you the indiscipline of the French armies, and the public prints will give you such facts on that head, as may tend to making up in your mind a solid judgment as to future events.

Paris, FRA - 10 June 1792

On the next day I dined with M. Dumouriez, and delivered the letter from the President to the King, on his acceptance of the constitution, of which letter I had previously made a translation, to avoid mistakes of their agents, which are not uncommon.

Paris, FRA - 17 June 1792

The ministry is changed rather sooner than I expected, that is to say, as to the totality. Messieurs Servan, Roland, and Claviere were dismissed by M. Dumouriez.

Paris, FRA - 1 July 1792

According to your orders I sit down to render this day a state of my account, which will be but short, because I shall charge at present no contingencies.

Paris, FRA - 9 July 1792

during the last session of Congress, although heavy duties were laid upon wines imported from other countries, no addition has been made to the duties paid by those of your country ; which amounts, in fact, to allowing them a premium

Paris, FRA - 10 July 1792

On Saturday, the seventh, a farce was acted in the Assembly, in which the principal performers played well their parts, and the King was duped according to custom. Things are now verging fast to the catastrophe of the play.

Paris, FRA - 1 August 1792

In a former letter I mentioned that M. de Lafayette was about to commence an attack upon the Jacobin faction. I have not followed that business in my correspondence, because the Gazettes will furnish the most ample intelligence.

Paris, FRA - 4 August 1792

I have the honor to inform you, that the King has made choice of M. Bonne-Carrere, director general of the Departe-ment Politique to succeed M. Ternant as minister plenipotentiary from France to the United States.

Paris, FRA - 13 August 1792

An American has a stronger sympathy with this country than any other observer, and nourished as he is in the very bosom of liberty, he cannot but be deeply afflicted to see that in almost every event, this struggle must terminate in despotism.

Paris, FRA - 16 August 1792

Since that period another revolution has been effected in this city. It was bloody. Success, which always makes friends, gives to the present order an air of greater unanimity than really exists.

Paris, FRA - 17 August 1792

I am still of opinion, that it is wise to multiply the scenes on which to display our credit. Those, who have lent money to a nation, naturally incline to speak well of that nation, first to justify the confidence they have placed, and next to increa

Paris, FRA - 17 August 1792

If I have not hitherto mentioned the application made to me by the foreign officers, who have certificates, whereof the interest is payable in this city, it has not been for want of sufficient reason, but because I daily hoped to have received some o

Paris, FRA - 22 August 1792

I suggested my idea, that the force commanded by M. de Lafayette would not be brought to immediate action, and that in such case he and his friends had nothing to hope for.

Paris, FRA - 30 August 1792

I have mentioned to you, that I had not been able to adjust with the minister of Foreign Affairs the rate of exchange, which should govern the payments made, and making, in America, on account of our debt to France

Paris, FRA - 30 August 1792

Upon the principle, that your instructions do not authorise you to treat with the new French government, your functions would be, at this moment, void

Paris, FRA - 1 September 1792

You do me the honor to tell me, that I am able to fulfil the engagements entered into by Mr Short, relative to the eight hundred thousand dollars to be held in North America at your disposal

Paris, FRA - 9 September 1792

Of all things I wish to steer clear of pecuniary transactions, because they involve a species of responsibility which is most irksome, and expose the agent to the chance of being called by every calumniator, to answer at the bar of public opinion.

Paris, FRA - 10 September 1792

We have had one week of unchecked murders, in which some thousands have perished in this city. It began with between two and three hundred of the clergy

Paris, FRA - 16 September 1792

I see that you have misunderstood certain expressions therein contained, and which were used relatively to circumstances.

Paris, FRA - 17 September 1792

As to my personal opinions, Sir, they are of no importance in so serious an affair, but you may be sure, that I have never questioned the right of any people to govern themselves ac cording to their own pleasure.

Paris, FRA - 19 September 1792

It gives me pain to write, and will, I am sure, give you pain to read, the distressful state of a country for which we have both a sincere regard.

Paris, FRA - 27 September 1792

I think it is proper to mention to you now a circumstance relating to that conversation, because it may explain transactions connected therewith. I had good reason to believe, that a private speculation was at the bottom of the proposals made to me

Paris, FRA - 23 October 1792

Poor Lafayette ! Your letter for him must remain with me yet some time. His enemies here are as virulent as ever, and I can give you no better proof than this.

Paris, FRA - 23 October 1792

I apprehend also that the United States will wish to see a little into the establishment of the new Republic, before they take any decided steps in relation to it.

Paris, FRA - 23 October 1792

I cannot give you such desirable intelligence respecting the state of things here, as I might have done if the late revolution had not taken place, because I find my intercourse of necessity suspended

Paris, FRA - 24 October 1792

You will have seen that the late constitution of this country has overset ; a natural accident to a thing, which was all sail and no ballast.

Paris, FRA - 5 November 1792

When Mr Short was here, he talked of going to Madrid, but, from what cause I know not, appeared to me indecisive, and apprehensive, to a degree which was astonishing.

Paris, FRA - 7 November 1792

I know not the titles of the King of Prussia. These should be properly placed, you know, because monarchs are very sensitive on that subject.

Paris, FRA - 3 December 1792

Success, as you will see, continues to crown the French arms, but it is not our trade to judge from success. We must observe the Civil, Moral, Religious and Political Institutions.

Paris, FRA - 21 December 1792

When I mentioned supplies to St Domingo, I certainly meant that such supplies should be purchased by French agents in the United States, and that the money should be advanced by us in diminution of our debt

Paris, FRA - 24 December 1792

You will have seen from the public prints the wonderful success of the French arms, arising from the following causes.

Paris, FRA - 28 December 1792

As to that war, I am told that the British ultimatum is as follows. France shall deliver the royal family to such reigning branch of the Bourbons as the King may choose, and shall re call her troops from the countries they now occupy.

Paris, FRA - 1 January 1793

Since that period, this government, perceiving that they had been wholly deceived respecting the British nation, have made advances towards conciliation.

Paris, FRA - 4 January 1793

The Council here talk so highly to Great Britain that you, who know mankind, will conclude them to be afraid ; and this conclusion is not far from the truth.

Paris, FRA - 6 January 1793

Dumouriez has been some days in Paris ; he stays at home under pretence of illness, but in fact to receive and consider the propositions of the different parties.

Paris, FRA - 10 January 1793

Those who planned the revolution, which took place on the tenth of August, sought a person to head the attack, and found a M. Westermann, whose morals were far from exemplary.

Paris, FRA - 25 January 1793

The late King of this country has been publicly executed. He died in a manner becoming his dignity. Mounting the scaffold, he expressed anew his forgiveness of those who persecuted him, and a prayer that his deluded people might be benefitted by his

Paris, FRA - 13 February 1793

Since my last, I have had every reason to believe, that the execution of the King has produced on foreign nations the effect which I had imagined.

Paris, FRA - 13 February 1793

am to acknowledge yours of the seventh of last November, which I cannot do without expressing my concern at a resolution, which will deprive the United States of an able and faithful servant.

Paris, FRA - 14 February 1793

You will find that events have blackened more and more in this country. The present prospects are dreadful.

Paris, FRA - 16 February 1793

It has so happened that a very great proportion of the French officers, who served in America, have been either opposed to the revolution at an early day, or felt themselves obliged at a later period to abandon it.

Paris, FRA - 27 February 1793

On the contrary I have every reason to be convinced, that at all stipulations in the treaty between France and the United States of America will be scrupulously complied with.

Paris, FRA - 2 March 1793

I am informed, in a way that precludes doubt, that the Executive Council here sent out by M. Genet three hundred blank commissions for privateers, to be given clandestinely to such persons as he might find in America inclined to take them.

Paris, FRA - 4 March 1793

As far as I can judge, this nation approaches to the point where the vigor of laws must supply the place of enthusiastic zeal, for this latter begins to abate.

Paris, FRA - 6 March 1793

He had opened a large loan, on his private credit and account, at Antwerp ; but the capitalists having no great confidence in him, it went on slowly ; and to stimulate their zeal, he threatened them with something very like military execution.

Paris, FRA - 7 March 1793

I am convinced that few of my countrymen will be so lost to all moral sense, as to embark in a game so abominable, where the murder of their fellow creatures enters as a leading chance.

Paris, FRA - 8 March 1793

Last evening I was informed that the French army in Flanders has been defeated, but as this is not an official account, I merely mention it as it is, viz. a letter sent express by an individual at Brussels

Paris, FRA - 9 March 1793

The accounts given to the Convention are so lame and blind, that one is obliged to piece them out like a tattered writing, where whole sentences are wanting.

Paris, FRA - 12 March 1793

I am told that the London Gazetteers have killed me, besides burning my house, and other little pleasantries of the same kind. Now as these accounts may be republished, I apprize you thereof, and pray you to vouch, that it was not true at the time of

Paris, FRA - 13 March 1793

In this case a battle must decide the fate of Flanders, and both parties will collect for the purpose all the force they can muster.

Paris, FRA - 24 March 1793

Many complaints have reached me respecting the outrages committed against American vessels, by the French privateers.

Paris, FRA - 29 March 1793

Yesterday afternoon I was arrested in the street, and conducted to the Section de la Butte des Moulins, because I had not a Carte de Citoyen.

Paris, FRA - 29 March 1793

I sent a copy of them immediately to the Minister of the Marine, praying him to take the most prompt measures to procure for Captain Todd the satisfaction due to him

Paris, FRA - 1 April 1793

I send the enclosed formula of the certificates of registry, with which American vessels ought to be furnished. Our government grants these certificates only to those vessels, which belong exclusively to American citizens.

Paris, FRA - 3 April 1793

The domiciliary visits were an equally general measure, from which no house in Paris was exempt. I see with pleasure, that the Commissaries of the Section, who entered your house, withdrew after the explanation you gave them.

Paris, FRA - 4 April 1793

You will perceive, that all my conjectures respecting the army of Dumouriez are more than realized. From the letters of Custine you will perceive that he has been totally defeated, for he found it necessary to fall back about forty miles

Paris, FRA - 5 April 1793

It appears that the army of Dumouriez is attached to him, and will go all the lengths which he desires. What is worse, to that the militia also adhere, so that he has all chances now in his favor

Paris, FRA - 19 April 1793

Since mine of the fifth, I learn that the militia have, in general, quitted the standard of Dumouriez, but he has about twelve thousand of the regular troops, and there is reason to believe that others mean to join him.

Paris, FRA - 14 May 1793

I have just learned that the National Convention, in its session of the ninth, has authorised French ships of war and privateers to stop, and bring into the ports of the Republic, neutral vessels

Paris, FRA - 21 June 1793

Infinitely pained at the afflicting details contained in that letter, I thought it my duty to communicate it immediately to the Comite de Salut Public, a copy of whose report I send herewith.

Paris, FRA - 25 June 1793

As to your re-acceptance, Sir, you know my sentiments, which, on that, as on some other subjects, are, I think, unchangeable. It will be time enough for you to have a successor, when it shall please God to call you from this world's theatre.

Paris, FRA - 27 June 1793

My predecessor has sent me a letter, which you wrote to him on the nineteenth instant, demanding reparation for an outrage committed on board the American ship, Little Cherub.

Paris, FRA - 3 July 1793

It is unfortunate, that the administration of St Domingo did not make arrangement with the French Minister in Philadelphia, to provide the means for paying their drafts.

Paris, FRA - 8 October 1793

Unhappily, they will show you, that the agent, whom you employed to maintain harmony between our two Republics, has been at least indiscreet

Paris, FRA - 10 October 1793

I arrived in this city the afternoon of the fifth. I had an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the morning of the eighth.

Paris, FRA - 10 October 1793

I am very anxious that Consuls and Vice Consuls should be appointed in all the ports. My countrymen are incessantly applying to me from every quarter about property taken from them.

Paris, FRA - 10 October 1793

The President of the United States has done justice to our sentiments, in attributing the deviations of the citizen Genet to causes entirely foreign from his instructions

Paris, FRA - 12 October 1793

I request you at the same time, Sir, to permit me to make two general observations on the whole of this business; one of which applies to the organization, and the other to the proceedings of the commercial tribunals.

Paris, FRA - 14 October 1793

You have complained of the fraud committed by the captors of the ship Peggy, in taking away the papers, which proved her cargo to be American.

Paris, FRA - 17 October 1793

Mr Livingston delivered to me yours of the 25th of July. He says that you alone gave him an idea of this country like the reality.

Paris, FRA - 18 October 1793

The present government is evidently a despotism both in principle and practice. The Convention now consists of only a part of those, who were chosen to frame a constitution.

Paris, FRA - 19 October 1793

It may be an important judicial question, how far the Minister is protected by the law of nations, after the arrival of his successor.

Paris, FRA - 19 October 1793

But although I cannot be of your opinion, I do not intend farther to discuss the considerations, which have produced the decision of the French government.

Paris, FRA - 19 October 1793

In a subsequent conversation he assured me, that Genet should be punished. I replied that the United States had only ordered me to ask his recall, and I could go no farther.

Paris, FRA - 20 October 1793

Be that as it may, the French have experienced a complete defeat in Alsace. The lines of the Lauter have been forced, and they have lost everything.

Paris, FRA - 12 November 1793

I understand that a kind of etiquette has been established, by which the Consuls, as not being properly diplomatic characters, are not received or invited with the Minister

Paris, FRA - 26 November 1793

You will form some more accurate idea of this situation, when I tell you that a young American by the name of Griffith, having lost at Havre my certificate that he was an American citizen, was taken up.

Paris, FRA - 9 December 1793

I receive, every day, letters which present to me the sad picture of what the commerce of the United States suffers at Bordeaux. Our vessels came on the faith of treaties.

Paris, FRA - 12 December 1793

The insurgents of Vendee, who had broken into Lower Normandy, seem to have divided themselves into various bands, and to have been attended with a varied success

Paris, FRA - 29 December 1793

A letter, which I have just received from the citizen Griffith, informs me that he has been two months in prison, with out any charge whatever being exhibited against him.

Paris, FRA - 21 January 1794

The young man, Mr Griffith, whom I mentioned in mine of the twenty-sixth of November, is at length out of prison ; but another, of the name of Hoskins, still remains in confinement

Paris, FRA - 5 February 1794

In a newspaper of this day I find the translation of your message of the fifth of December to Congress, and observe, that after stating the violation of the treaty by a decree of the National Convention, you tell them I have been instructed to make r

Paris, FRA - 14 February 1794

Thomas Paine has just made application to me, to claim him as a citizen of the United States. The following, I believe, are the facts with regard to him.

Paris, FRA - 22 February 1794

And, first, you are to know that my appointment of you is a mere assumption of power on my part, no such authority being given to me as that which is implied in your commission.

Paris, FRA - 27 February 1794

The Captains of American vessels brought into your ports, and persons interested in the said vessels and their cargoes, address to me very serious complaints, which seem but too well founded.

Paris, FRA - 6 May 1794

I am told that the Republic now feed ten hundred and thirty thousand infantry, and ninety-four thousand cavalry. This is an immense army even on paper

Paris, FRA - 14 August 1794

I am preparing for my departure ; but as yet can take no step, because there is a kind of interregnum in the government

Paris, FRA - 18 August 1794

My only remaining wish respecting this affair is, that my successor may fully succeed, and realize the expectations of the United States, or even surpass them.

Paris, FRA - 31 August 1794

The history you give of my recall is perfectly satisfactory, so far as I am personally concerned. I have never doubted an instant, that I should be treated with candor and honor

Paris, FRA - 18 September 1794

The resources of this country will hold out till the end of April next, but then things will appear in a situation truly deplorable.

Paris, FRA - 10 April 1811

General LAFAYETTE letter to Dolly Madison.

Paris, FRA - 22 September 1813

Within a few days past I have received a letter from General La Fayette, addressed to you respecting his lands in Louisiana.

Paris, FRA - 8 April 1814

William Crawford letter to Henry Clay... The events which have within a few days passed in this city, and in its neighborhood, have changed every thing in France...

Paris, FRA - 13 May 1814

Expectations have been entertained by the government, and you no doubt have participated in them, that the Emperor Alexander would interest himself in the negotiation between us and our enemy.

Paris, FRA - 24 May 1814

A few days past I was informed by a friend that if I would draw up a short statement of the reciprocal causes of complaint between the United States and England, that he would cause it to be laid before the Emperor of Russia.

Paris, FRA - 25 May 1814

I am much obliged to you for the care you have been pleased to take of my patents, and still more grateful for the beneficial kindness I have experienced from you in the whole course of that transaction.

Paris, FRA - 26 May 1814

I passed the last evening in company with the Emperor Alexander, who, however prepossessed in his favor, has surpassed my expectations.

Paris, FRA - 28 May 1814

The French government has revoked the decision of the late Emperor permitting American armaments in the ports of France.

Paris, FRA - 3 June 1814

Here is, however, another copy of the observations which I had put under the eyes of Emperor Alexander, while I transmitted to him, through a particular friend, the excellent and more extensive note of Mr. Crawford.

Paris, FRA - 10 June 1814

William Crawford letter to Henry Clay... The change in the place of the negotiation for peace will enable me to write to you frequently...

Paris, FRA - 4 July 1814

William Crawford letter to Henry Clay... I am not sanguine in my expectations of peace. If the failure of your exertions, to put an end to the war, shall succeed in producing unanimity at home, we shall have no cause to lament that failure.

Paris, FRA - 9 July 1814

William Crawford letter to Henry Clay... It appears that we differ in opinion upon two points. You believe that the British Government will not hesitate to make peace...

Paris, FRA - 19 July 1814

William Crawford letter to Henry Clay... I dined a few days ago in company with the Marquis of Buckinghamshire. We conversed long and freely upon the subject of the approaching negotiation.

Paris, FRA - 12 July 1816

on my observing that our commercial relations with France had already much increased, and that the principal obstacle to their further extension arose principally from the regulations of this government

Paris, FRA - 6 August 1816

On the 11th I had the audience from the King, to whom I delivered my letters of credence. The reception, both from him and from the Princes, was what is called gracious

Paris, FRA - 12 August 1816

The month I have already spent in Paris has been necessarily devoted in a great degree to my private arrangements, and I am only within two days settled in my house.

Paris, FRA - 12 September 1816

I had, at my request, an interview, on the 30th ultimo, with the Duke of Richelieu on the subject of the indemnities due to American citizens for property wrested from them under the administration of the late Emperor of France.

Paris, FRA - 14 September 1816

Amongst the offers of persons wishing to go to the United States and to enter their service, one only has appeared to me worthy of attention and to deserve to be submitted to the decision of government.

Paris, FRA - 25 September 1816

You will see in the Moniteurs which accompany this the rumors respecting Mr. Pinkney's negotiation, and the various speculations which it has occasioned.

Paris, FRA - 14 October 1816

The Duke then stated that he was not authorized to enter into a negotiation for the purpose of providing an indemnity to the citizens of the United States for the captures and confiscations

Paris, FRA - 11 November 1816

I have the honor to enclose the copy of my note of the 9th instant to the Duke de Richelieu on the subject of indemnities due to citizens of the United States

Paris, FRA - 19 November 1816

It may be presumed that the Neapolitan government delayed that note in order to prevent the possibility of a reply, and that their intention in communicating it to me was to hasten its transmission to you.

Paris, FRA - 21 November 1816

I had this morning an interview with the Duke de Richelieu on the subject of the application made by the minister of France for the removal of the postmaster of Baltimore on account of the toast given by him on the 4th of July last.

Paris, FRA - 20 January 1817

he Duke for the first time declared that he did not consider us as being of right entitled to an indemnity from the present French government on account of spoliations committed by that of Bonaparte

Paris, FRA - 16 April 1817

The 4th Article proposed by the British government appears to me, as it does to you, to be substantially the same which we had rejected and to be altogether inadmissible.

Paris, FRA - 23 April 1817

he announced to me that he had concluded not to give a written answer to my note of the 9th of November last on the subject of American claims.

Paris, FRA - 11 July 1817

I have alluded in my former letters to the difficulties which I foresaw in making any commercial arrangements with this country.

Paris, FRA - 12 July 1817

The communications first made by Mr. de Neuville to his government, and particularly the ground which he had taken on the subject of the Baltimore toast, had produced here a very unfavorable effect.

Paris, FRA - 8 October 1817

On my arrival at Bruxelles I found that the King had determined that the negotiations should be carried on at the Hague.

Paris, FRA - 9 October 1817

The long letter of Messrs. Goldberg and Yanderkemp of 30th September last would not seem, viewing its date, manner, or contents, to require any direct answer.

Paris, FRA - 10 October 1817

In the last conference held at the Hague, the plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands said that probably they would address another note to us, principally for the purpose of giving us a clear statement of their laws

Paris, FRA - 27 April 1818

You will see in the Moniteur of yesterday the result of the negotiations respecting the private claims of subjects of the several European powers against France.

Paris, FRA - 10 July 1822

he pretends that the reason why the government of the United States had, after taking possession of Fernandina, compelled all vessels entering those waters to enter and clear at this customhouse, was because the Spanish government had no port of entr

Paris, FRA - 29 July 1822

I hope, however, that the superior activity of our ship-owners and seamen will enable us to stand the competition, and that the convention, having been signed, will be ratified.

Paris, FRA - 8 September 1822

The indisposition alluded to in my note to Mr. de Yillele was a rheumatic pain, which has confined me for four weeks.

Paris, FRA - 24 September 1822

I had yesterday a conference with Mr. de Villèle on the subject of our claims.

Paris, FRA - 13 November 1822

Mr. Hyde de Neuville called on me some days after my conference with Mr. de Villèle, and I am sorry to say that his conversation was very unsatisfactory.

Paris, FRA - 13 November 1822

considerations connected with my children and with my private affairs imperiously require my presence in America at least for some months.

Paris, FRA - 19 November 1822

I had urged why a distinct negotiation should be immediately opened on the subject of the claims against both governments

Paris, FRA - 5 January 1823

I had, after his return from Verona, a conversation with the Duke of Montmorency on our claims.

Paris, FRA - 18 January 1823

On the return of the Duke of Montmorency from Verona, I had a preparatory conversation with him on the subject of the slave-trade, and promised to send him the copy of our laws prohibiting it.

Paris, FRA - 27 February 1823

a renewed discussion on that subject would be unprofitable and lead to no result whatever

Paris, FRA - 28 February 1823

There not being at this time the least prospect of a settlement of our claims, I do not perceive any reason connected with the public service for protracting my stay in this country.

Paris, FRA - 18 April 1823

take my departure in about a month

Paris, FRA - 13 October 1825

most sincerely sympathize with you and Mrs. Clay in the sad calamity you have suffered in the loss of your dear little daughter.

Paris, FRA - 13 February 1829

I am happy to find that you have borne your disappointment and loss of place with so much true philosophy.

Paris, FRA - 8 December 1832

The reelection of the President will set you at liberty to make a choice between the secretaryship and the French legation

Paris, FRA - 6 May 1834

Since I had the pleasure to see you, my dear friend, I have had an attack of gouty fever, which kept me in my bed. I hope it is or will be soon over.

Paris, FRA - 24 January 1842

under the pressure of the public debt, England finds it impossible to maintain her commercial and manufacturing superiority, because she cannot raise cotton, sugar &c as cheap in India as it can be raised in the United States

Paris, FRA - 7 November 1856

My heart fluttered as, after rumbling a long way through the dark, we tumbled into a yard. We knocked at a door and were met in the hall by a man who stammers a little in his speech...

Paris, FRA - 19 June 1859

John Sherman letter to William Sherman... If there are unhappy people here, I have not seen them.

Paris, FRA - 28 May 1860

Since my last letter a great change has taken place in our plans, in consequence of which our passage for America is engaged by the Europa...

Paris, FRA - 16 July 1872

W.T. Sherman letter to brother John Sherman...I infer that Grant will be re-elected

Paris, FRA - 25 October 1877

ulysses grant writes to brother-in-law A.R. Corbin, October 25th, 1877

Paris, FRA - 27 November 1877

ulysses grant writes to brother-in-law A.R. Corbin, November 27th, 1877

Paris, FRA - 25 May 1878

ulysses grant writes to brother-in-law M.J. Cramer, May 25th, 1878

Paris, FRA - 3 June 1878

ulysses grant writes to brother-in-law M.J. Cramer, June 3rd, 1878

Paris, FRA - 10 December 1878

ulysses grant writes to brother-in-law M.J. Cramer, December 10th, 1878