xiii.
Arrêt du Conseil d’État du Roi, qui exempte du Droit de Transit, tous les Vins qui arriveront dans les ports de la Sénéchaussée
de Bordeaux pour y être embarqués. Du 10 Septembre 1786.
[A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1786.]
4to. 2 leaves, the second a blank, caption title, imprint at the end; signed by Gravier de Vergennes.
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xiv. [CALONNE,
Charles Alexandre de.]
Lettre adressée à M. Jefferson, Ministre Plénipotentiaire des États-Unis d’Amérique. A Fontainebleau, le 22 Octobre 1786. Without name of place or printer [
Paris?
1786].
8vo. 4 leaves, sig. A, paged [1]-7; caption title.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Quérard.
Not in Faÿ.
Not in Arents.
This edition not in Johnston.
The original autograph manuscript letter is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress, as is also another copy of the printed text. The printed version has been edited slightly. It is reprinted in
De la France et des États-Unis
by Etienne Claviere and Brissot de Warville, q.v., the only form in which it was known to Johnston (page 26).
Jefferson’s reply, dated from Paris, November 2, 1786, read: “
I have been honored with your Excellency’s letter of October the 22
d. wherein you communicate to me the regulations which His Majesty the King has been pleased lately to establish in favor of
the commerce between his subjects & the Citizens of the United States. I availed myself of the first occasion of conveying
this information to Congress, who will recieve with singular satisfaction this new proof of His Majesty’s friendship, & of
his willingness to multiply the ties of interest & of intercourse between the two nations. Favors are doubly precious which,
promoting the present purposes of interest & of friendship enlarge the foundations for their continuance & increase. The part
which your Excellency has been pleased to take in the establishment of these regulations merits & meets my sincere thanks,
& add a title
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
the more to those sentiments of profound esteem & respect with which I have the honor to be your Excellency’s most obedient
& most humble servant.
”
The Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress contain also a letterpress copy of his Observations on Calonne’s letter, 5 pages 4to.
Charles Alexandre de Calonne, 1734-1802, French statesman and financial minister, had important correspondence with Jefferson, the minister plenipotentiary.
In sending Calonne’s
Memoire
to Madame de Corny on October 18, 1787, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . you will read it with pleasure . . . tho’ it does not prove M. de Calonne to be more innocent than his predecessors,
it shews him not to have been that exaggerated scoundrel which the calculations & the clamours of the public have supposed.
it shews that the public treasures have not been so inconceivably squandered as the parliaments of Grenoble Thoulouse &c.
had affirmed. in fine, it shews him less wicked, & France less badly governed, than I had feared . . .
”
Madame Palivae de Corny was the wife of the philosopher Louis Dominique Ethis de Corny. She was a friend of Maria Cosway, Angelica Church, and others of Jefferson’s circle in France.
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xv. MORRIS,
Robert.
[Begins]
Nous, soussignés, Robert Morris, ancien Surintendant des Finances des Etats-Unis de l’Amérique, résidant à Philadelphie, d’une part;
Et, de l’autre, Le Normand, Receveur-Général des Finances de la Généralité de la Rochelle, résidant à Paris, sommes convenus,
avons traité respectivement, l’un envers l’autre, de la vente & achat de soixante mille Boucauts de Tabac, de neuf à dix Quintaux
des divers crûs du continent de l’Amérique, aux clauses & conditions ci après énoncées . . .
[
Paris,
1786]
