in support of the right of the public to the Batture in front of the Suburb St. Mary. Wednesday, March 14, 1810.
City of Washington:
A. & G. Way, Printers,
1810.
8 leaves.
Sabin 64846.
Not in Tinker.
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vi. [MOREAU
de LISLET, Louis Casimir Elisabeth.]
Examination of the judgment rendered in the cause between Jean Gravier and the City of New Orleans. City of Washington:
A. & G. Way, Printers,
1809.
8vo. 10 leaves.
On the title-page Jefferson has written:
by Moreau de Lislet.
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vii. [THIERRY,
Jean Baptiste Simon.]
Reply to Mr. Duponceau. [
New-Orleans,
1809.]
34 leaves, caption title, no title-page. The text ends on sig. E
1 verso, page (34), and is signed and dated Thierry, New-Orleans, 16th May, 1809; on the next page begins the Appendix, which contains a statement by James Tanesse, City Surveyor
of New-Orleans; the Petition of Claude François Girod, presented on the 28th May, 1801 (from the Archives of the Cabildo);
and a Refutation of Mr. Livingston’s Pamphlet, entitled An Address to the People of the United States, &c.
Sabin 95346.
McMurtrie 147.
On the first page Jefferson has written:
by Thiery.
Jefferson’s name is mentioned in the Refutation of Mr. Livingston’s Pamphlet. On page (41) occurs the passage:
. . . But, thanks be to God, in spite of all the wretched intrigues of the faction of Clark, Livingston, & Co. to persuade
the inhabitants of this country that they were an object of aversion to the government, the Louisianians have found in Mr.
Jefferson a friend and protector. The paternal vigilance of the chief magistrate of the Republic, soon discovered that the
mildness of their manners, their characteristic frankness and rectitude, rendered them worthy of all his benevolence; nor
has he suffered the quondam mayor of New-York, notwithstanding all the artifices that had served as a prelude to the decision
of the Batture cause, to repair his fortune at the expence of this country . . .
Again on page (49):
. . . What thanksgivings ought not we to render to Mr. Jefferson, were it only for his having given us the hope of seeing
a dike opposed to that inundation of knavery and chicane, which threatened to swallow up all our private property, if once
it could have carried away that which belonged to the public! No, sir, do not expect, by your insidious assimilations, to
diminish the respect and sincere attachment which we so justly bear to Mr. Jefferson: the gratitude of the inhabitants of
this country towards the American government, is equal to the indignation and contempt with which you have inspired them .
. .
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viii. DERBIGNY,
Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon.
Réfutation du Mémoire en forme de consultation, rédigé par Mr. Duponceau, Jurisconsulte a Philadelphie, au sujet des pretentions
des Etats-Unis sur la Batture du Faubourg Ste.-Marie de la Nouvelle-Orleans, Par Mr. Derbigny, Avocat à la Nlle.-Orléans.
A la
Nouvelle-Orleans, De l’Imprimerie de
Jean Renard,
1808.
30 leaves. On page [50] a few words of text are rubbed away, and supplied by hand in ink, probably by Derbigny.
Not in Sabin.
McMurtrie 130.
Not in Tinker.
Derbigny sent a copy of this
Réfutation on November 14, 1808, to Jefferson with the following letter: “As an inhabitant of a country which has received from you a signalized protection in an occurrence of general concern, I should
have been deficient in gratitude, had I not hastened to give to your answers against M
r. Livingston all my support, feeble as it may be. I have therefore written an answer to M
r. Duponceau’s memorial as soon as it was published here; and would have the honor to inclose you a copy of it, had I not,
in order to lose no time, given the printer my letter, sheet by sheet. I expected to be able to forward you a full printed
copy by this mail, but being disappointed, I take the liberty of sending you the beginning. I regret ”
