On May 11 Adams wrote to Jefferson: “The Case of the Pays de Vaud is curious enough. Dr. Cart the Writer of the Book I sent you is arrived at New York and Mr.
Rosset whose Tryal and Sentence for high Treason, for dining at a civic feast and drinking two or three Patriotic Toasts,
is mentioned in it, is here at Philadelphia. He has lent me in Manuscript a full account of his Tryal. As much as I have ever
detested an Aristocratical Government, I did not believe that the Canton of Berne could have been so tyrannical, till I read
his Manuscript.
"I think nevertheless that “the Rights of one Generation of Men must still depend, in some degree, on the Paper Transactions
of another.” The Social Compact and the Laws must be reduced to Writing. Obedience to them becomes a national Habit and they
cannot be changed but by Revolutions which are costly Things. Men will be too Œconomical of their Blood and Property to have
Recourse to them very frequently.”
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Statistique elementaire de la France par Peuchet.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 332, as above, 1805, 8vo.
PEUCHET,
Jacques.
Statistique élémentaire de la France, contenant les principes de cette science et leur application à l’analyse de la richesse,
des forces et de la puissance de l’empire français; à l’usage des personnes qui se destinent à l’étude de l’administration;
par M. Jacques Peuchet . . .
A
Paris: chez
Gilbert et Compagnie . . .
1805.
HC275 .P5
First Edition. 8vo. 317 leaves.
Rebound in half red morocco, with the 1815 bookplate preserved. Signed by Jefferson with the initial T before the numeral
1 on the second leaf of the first signature.
Sent to Jefferson by David Baillie Warden who has written on the half-title:
for Thos Jefferson Esquire from D. B. Warden.
On December 10, 1811, Warden wrote from Paris to Jefferson that he was sending certain books: “. . . In the same case, I have forwarded, for your acceptance, a copy of Peuchets’
Statistique . . .”
On November 1, 1812, he wrote: “I regret that I have not had the honor of receiving a line from you since my return to Paris, during which interval I have
written to you at four different times--my first, of the 10th December, 1811, was accompanied with a MS. from Senator Tracy
. . . It was forwarded, with Mr. Barlow’s dispatches, under cover to the President of the United States . . . I forwarded
to you, by the same channel of conveyance, a copy of
Peuchets Statistique . . .”
Jefferson acknowledged this letter and the receipt of this book on December 29, 1813.
Jacques Peuchet, 1760-1830, French avocat and professor of law.
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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 308, Skipwith’s letters, 8vo.
SKIPWITH,
Fulwar.
Two Letters from F. Skipwith Esq. to General Armstrong; with the General’s answers and sundry documents printed
1806.
JX238 .F75 1806a
