"The piece N ^o. 2, entitled, On the Jacobinism of the English at Sea, was written when the English made their insolent and impolitic expedition to Denmark, and is also an auxiliary to the politic of N ^o. 1. I shewed it to a friend who had it translated into french and printed in the form of a Pamphlet, and distributed gratis among the foreign ministers, and persons in the Government. It was immediately copied into several of the french Journals, and into the official Paper, the Moniteur . It appeared in this paper one day before the last dispatch arrived from Egypt; which agreed perfectly with what I had said respecting Egypt. It hitt the two cases of Denmark and Egypt in the exact proper moment.

"The Piece N ^o. 3 entitled Compact Maritime is the sequel of N ^o. 2 digested in form. It is translating at the time I write this letter, and I am to have a meeting with the Senator Garat upon the subject. The pieces 2. & 3. go off in manuscript to England by a confidential person where they will be published . . .

"The pieces 2, 3, may go to the press. They will make a small pamphlet, and the printers are welcome to put my name to it. It is best it should be put. From thence they will get into the newspapers. I know that the faction of John Adams abuses me pretty heartily. They are welcome. It does not disturb me, and they lose their labour; and in return for it I am doing America more service, as a neutral nation, than their expensive commissioners can do, and she has that service from me for nothing. The piece N ^o. 1 is only for your own amusem[ment] [ sic -- Ed. ] and that of your friends . . .

Jefferson replied on March 18 of the following year: “ Your letters of Oct. 1. 4. 6. 16. came duly to hand, and the papers which they covered were, according to your permission, published in the newspapers & in a pamphlet, & under your own name. these papers contain precisely our principles, & I hope they will be generally recognized here . . . ”

On February 12, 1801, Jefferson sent a copy of the Compact Maritime to M. Page, J. Page, Governor Monroe, P. N. Nicholas, J. W. Eppes, T. M. Randolph, Colonel N. Lewis, P. Carr, Dr. Bache, James Madison, and Archibald Stuart.

On the fly-leaf is written a list of the tracts (not by Jefferson).

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In the upper margin of the first page is written the date, 1793 (partly cut away), probably by Jefferson.

Under date July 5, 1793, Jefferson, in Philadelphia, noted in the so-called Anas : M ^r. Genet called on me, and read to me very rapidly instrñs he had prepared for Michaud who is going to Kentuckey, an address to the inhab. of Louisiana, & another to those of Canada. in these papers it appears that besides encouraging those inhabitants to insurrection, he speaks of two generals at Kentuckey who have proposed to him to go & take N. Orleans if he will furnish the exp. about £3000. sterl. he declines advancing it, but promises that sum ultimately for their expences, proposes that officers shall be commiss ^d. by himself in Kentuckey & Louisiana, that they shall rendezvous out of the territories of the US. suppose in Louisiana, & there making up a battalion to be called the [this space left in the original] of inhabitants of Louisiana and Kentuckey and getting what Ind ^ns. they could, to undertake the expedñ against N. Orleans, and then Louisiana to be established into an independant state connected in commerce with France & the US. that two frigates shall go into the river Mississipi and cooperate against N. Orleans.--the address to Canada, was to encourage them to shake off English yoke, to call Indians to their assistance, and to assure them of the friendly disposñs of their neighbors of the US. he said he communicated these things to me, not as Sec ^y of state, but as m ( ^~ r) Jeff . . .