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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) TO HORATIO GATES 1 - The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786)
TO HORATIO GATES 1 - Thomas Jefferson, The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786) [1905]Edition used:The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5). Vol. 4.
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- Notes On Virginia ( Continued )
- Query Xii a Notice of the Counties, Cities, Townships, and Villages?
- Query Xiii the Constitution of the State and Its Several Charters?
- Query Xiv the Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws?
- Query Xv the Colleges and Public Establishments, the Roads, Buildings, &c.?
- Query Xvi the Measures Taken With Regard of the Estates and Possessions of the Rebels, Commonly Called Tories?
- Query Xvii the Different Religions Received Into That State?
- Query Xviii the Particular Customs and Manners That May Happen to Be Received In That State?
- Query Xix the Present State of Manufactures, Commerce, Interior and Exterior Trade?
- Query Xx a Notice of the Commercial Productions Particular to the State, and of Those Objects Which the Inhabitants Are Obliged to Get From Europe and From Other Parts of the World?
- Query Xxi the Weights, Measures and the Currency of the Hard Money? Some Details Relating to Exchange With Europe?
- Query Xxii the Public Income and Expences?
- Query Xxiii the Histories of the State, the Memorials Published In Its Name In the Time of Its Being a Colony, and the Pamphlets Relating to Its Interior Or Exterior Affairs Present Or Antient?
- Correspondence and Miscellaneous Writings 1783
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To General Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison 1
- To the French Minister. (chevalier De La Luzerne.)
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs. (robert R. Livingston)
- To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To James Madison 2
- To Francis Eppes 1
- To the Secretary For Foreign Affairs (robert R. Livingston)
- To John Jay
- To James Madison 1
- To James Madison
- Proposed Constitution For Virginia 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison
- To Charles Carter
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To James Madison
- Report of Committee On Unfinished Business 1
- Report On Definitive Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolutions Relating to British Treaty. 1
- Report On Letters From the Ministers In Paris 2
- Report On Ceremonial For Washington 1
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Ratification of Treaty 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- 1784 - to James Madison
- Motion On Ratification of Treaty 1
- Fair Copy
- Rough Draft
- Resolution On Definitive Treaty 1
- Ratification of Definitive Treaty 2
- Draft For Proclamation Announcing Ratification of Definitive Treaty 1
- To Martha Jefferson 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To Oliver Pollock
- Draft of a Report On the Memorial of Zebulon Butler and Others 1
- Rough Draft
- Fair Copy
- Report On Letter From John Allan 1
- Draft of Report On a Committee of the States 1
- Report On Committee of the States 1
- To the Superintendent of Finance 1 (robert Morris)
- To James Madison
- Draft of Deed of Cession of Northwest Territory 1
- Report On Government For Western Territory 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Report On Reduction of Civil List 1
- Instructions For Negotiating With Indians. 1
- To George Washington
- To George Washington
- To James Madison 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Resolves On European Treaties 1
- Report of Government For the Western Territory 1
- Report On Cession of Western Territory. 1
- Report of the Arrears of Interest 1
- To George Washington
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison.)
- To George Washington
- Notes On the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage For the United States 1
- Motion On Steuben. 1
- Notes On the Permanent Seat of Congress. 1
- Resolutions For the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia. 1
- Resolve On Continental Congress
- To George Washington
- To James Madison
- Report On Mercer 1
- Draft of “an Ordinance Establishing a Land Office For the United States” 2
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To Horatio Gates 1
- Report On Continental Bills of Credit 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- To the Governor of Virginia (benjamin Harrison)
- Instructions to the Ministers Plenipotentiary Appointed to Negotiate Treaties of Commerce With the European Nations 1
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To Benjamin Franklin 1
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia 1 (benjamin Harrison)
- To James Madison.
- To James Monroe
- To Charles Thomson 1
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To Horatio Gates 1
- 1785 - to Nathanael Greene 1
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To James Monroe
- To James Monroe
- To James Madison
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To James Monroe 1
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To James Monroe
- To Mrs. Sprowle
- To Mrs. John (abigail) Adams
- To Richard Henry Lee
- To the Virginia Delegates In Congress
- To the Governor of Virginia (patrick Henry)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst 1
- To John Adams 1
- To Dr. Richard Price
- To John Jay
- To James Monroe 1
- To David Hartley
- To Mary Jefferson 1
- To Mrs John (abigail) Adams
- To Hogendorp (count Gysbert-charles Van)
- To N. and J. Van Staphorst
- To Phillip Mazzei
- Conference With the Count De Vergennes On the Subject of the Commerce of the United States With France. 1 1785.
- Correspondence 1786
- To Dr. James Currie
- To the Governor of Virginia. 1 (patrick Henry.)
TO HORATIO GATES
Paris, Dec. 13, 1784. Dear General,
—I duly received the letter you were so good as to write me from New York. We have here under our contemplation the future miseries of human nature, like to be occasioned by the ambition of a young man, who has been taught to view his subjects as his cattle. The pretensions he sets up to the navigation of the Scheld would have been good, if natural right had been left uncontrolled but it is impossible for express compact to have taken away a right more effectually than it has the Emperor’s. There are numbers here (but not of the cabinet) who still believe he will retract, but I see no one circumstance on which to found such a belief. Nothing had happened but what he must have forseen and calculated on. And in fact all his movements indicate war. The Dutch are truly animated and ready to place their existence on the stake now contended for. The spring which brings general happiness to all other beings will probably open the sluices of calamity on our wretched fellow creatures on this side of the Atlantic. France, Holland, Prussia & Turkey against the two empires I think will be an overmatch. England will be neuter from interest as well as importance. The disposition of her inhabitants is very unfriendly to us. It remains to see whether their ministers suffer themselves to be led by passions also. I think it probable we shall go over there for a short time. An American vessel (a Virginia), has been lately taken by a frigate of the emperor of Morocco, who has five of them cruising on the Atlantic. The brig had just left Cadiz. Our trade to Portugal, Spain, & the Mediteranean is annihilated unless we do something decisive. Tribute or war is the usual alternative of these pirates. If we yield the power, it will require sums which our people will feel. Why not begin a navy then & decide on war? We cannot begin in a better cause nor against a weaker foe. You will have heard that the E. of Shelburne is made Marquis of Lansdown & Lord Temple Marquis of Buckingham. There is no appearance however of the former coming into the ministry which seem absolutely firm.
TO NATHANAEL GREENE
Paris, Jan. 12, 1785. Sir,
—Everything in Europe is quiet, & promises quiet for at least a year to come. We do not find it easy to make commercial arrangements in Europe. There is a want of confidence in us. This country has lately reduced the duties on American whale oil to about a guinea & a half a ton, and I think they will take the greatest part of what we can furnish. I hope therefore that this branch of our commerce will resume its activity. Portugal shews a disposition to court our trade, but this has for some time been discouraged by the hostilities of the pyratical states of Barbary. The Emperor of Morocco who had taken one of our vessels, immediately consented to suspend hostilities, & ultimately gave up the vessel, cargo & crew. I think we shall be able to settle matters with him, but I am not sanguine as to the Algerines. They have taken two of our vessels, and I fear will ask such a tribute for the forbearance of their piracies as the U. S. would be unwilling to pay.—When this idea comes across my mind my faculties are absolutely suspended between indignation & impotence.—I think whatever sums we are obliged to pay for freedom of navigation in the European seas, should be levied on European commerce with us, by a separate impost, that these powers may see that they protect these enormities for their own loss.
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