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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) TO TIMOTHY PICKERING, SECRETARY OF STATE. - The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIII (1794-1798)
TO TIMOTHY PICKERING, SECRETARY OF STATE. - George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, vol. XIII (1794-1798) [1892]Edition used:The Writings of George Washington, collected and edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1890). Vol. XIII (1794-1798).
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- The Writings of George Washington.
- 1794.
- To Tobias Lear.
- To Henry Knox, Secretary of War.
- Letters to William Pearce, 1794. 1
- 1795.
- To Daniel Carroll.
- To Tobias Lear.
- To Eleanor Parke Custis.
- To Edmund Pendleton.
- To the Commissioners of the Federal District.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Robert Lewis.
- To Joseph Ceracchi. 1
- To Charles Carter.
- To Thomas Jefferson.
- To Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia.
- To Major-general Daniel Morgan.
- To Alexander White. [private.]
- To Secretaries of State, Treasury, and War, and the Attorney-general. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private and Perfectly Confidential.]
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State.
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War.
- To Ezekiel Price, Thomas Walley, William Boardman, Ebenezer Seaver, Thomas Crafts, Thomas Edwards, William Little, William Scollay, and Jesse Putnam, Selectmen of the Town of Boston.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State.
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury.
- To Edmund Randolph.
- To John Adams, Vice-president of the United States.
- To Robert R. Livingston.
- To James Ross.
- To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To John Jay. [private.]
- To George Cabot. [private and Confidential.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Henry Knox.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Edmund Randolph.
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury. [private.]
- To Thomas Jefferson.
- To Edward Carrington. [private and Confidential.]
- To Patrick Henry.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War.
- To Edmund Randolph.
- To Edmund Randolph. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private and Confidential.]
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To John H. Stone, Governor of Maryland.
- Speech to Both Houses of Congress, December 8th, 1795. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Gouverneur Morris.
- Letters to William Pearce, 1795. 1
- 1796.
- To James Mchenry. [private.]
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To Dr. James Anderson.
- To Thomas Pinckney.
- To Gouverneur Morris.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, War, and the Attorney General.
- Message to the House of Pepresentatives.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Henry Knox.
- To George Lewis.
- To Edward Carrington. [private.]
- To John Jay, Governor of New York.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Thomas Pinckney. [private.]
- To Cyrus Griffin.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To David Humphreys.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Gustavus Scott.
- To Thomas Jefferson.
- To Charles Lee, Attorney-general.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. [private and Confidential.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private and Confidential.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To the Duke De Liancourt.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To James Anderson.
- To James Monroe.
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private.]
- To John Quincy Adams.
- To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. [private.]
- Farewell Address. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton. [private]
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To Charles Lee, Attorney-general. [private.]
- To George Washington Parke Custis. 1
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To the Commissioners of the City of Washington.
- Speech to Both Houses of Congress, December 7th, 1796.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To John H. Stone, Governor of Maryland.
- 1797.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To David Stuart.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State. [private.]
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To Benjamin Walker.
- Message to Both Houses of Congress; On the Injury Sustained By American Commerce From French Cruisers.
- To Alexander Hamilton.
- To the Commissioners of the City of Washington.
- To Henry Knox.
- To Jonathan Trumbull.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War. [private.]
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury.
- To William Heath.
- To Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith.
- To Thomas Pinckney.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To David Humphreys.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Samuel Washington.
- To William Strickland.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To General Lafayette.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To William Gordon.
- To John Langhorne.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To John Marshall.
- 1798.
- To George Washington Parke Custis.
- To James Mchenry. [private.]
- To Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
- To William Augustine Washington.
- To Alexander White.
- To Bushrod Washington.
- To John Nicholas.
- Remarks On Monroe’s “view of the Conduct of the Executive of the United States.” 1
- To Alexander White.
- To James Mchenry, Secretary of War.
- To Ferdinand Ferot.
- To Timothy Pickering.
- To George Washington Parke Custis. 1
- To Mrs. Sarah Fairfax. 1
- Mrs. Washington to Mrs. Sarah Fairfax.
TO TIMOTHY PICKERING, SECRETARY OF STATE.
Mount Vernon, 27 July, 1796. Sir,
Your two letters, both bearing date the 21st instant, with their enclosures, were received by the last mail to Alexandria. It would have been unfortunate, and much indeed to have been regretted, if the French government had had as great cause of complaint against the conduct of the United States, as they have shown a disposition to complain. It was natural to expect, though it was not easy to conceive on what ground, that the French discontents, which had been so often announced, accompanied with such terrific threatenings chiefly by anonymous writers, that the formal exhibition of them under the authority of the Directory by their minister of foreign affairs, would have had something serious, formidable, and embarrassing in their appearance. Instead of which, most, if not all the charges seem to have originated either in a misinterpretation, or want of attention to treaties and the laws of nations, or in the want of a just and timely representation of facts, with accompanying explanations, which our minister near the French government had it in his power, and was directed to make.
Presuming that Mr. Van Polanen is regularly credited by the proper authority of the existing government of the United Netherlands, I see no cause, (accordant with the principles which have actuated the government of the United States,) why, when I return to Philadelphia, he should not be received as the minister resident of that country. And, if no objection unknown to me should occur to you, Mr. Van Polanen may be so informed. My arrival there will be by the first of September. * * *
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