For a state of our
transactions in general, I refer you to the newspapers which accompany
this. I put under your cover letters and newspapers for Mr. Carmichael
and Mr. Barclay, which I pray you to contrive by some sure
conveyances. We must make you, for some time, the common centre of our
correspondence.
I am with great and sincere respect and esteem, Dear Sir, your most
obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CIV.--TO MR. HAMMOND, April 12, 1792
TO MR. HAMMOND.
Philadelphia, April 12, 1792.
Sir,
I am this moment favored with the letter you did me the honor of writing
yesterday, covering the extract of a British statute forbidding the
admission of foreign vessels into any ports of the British dominions,
with goods or commodities of the growth, production, or manufacture of
America. The effect of this appears to me so extensive, as to induce
a doubt whether I understand rightly the determination to enforce it,
which you notify, and to oblige me to ask of you whether we are
to consider it as so far a revocation of the proclamation of your
government, regulating the commerce between the two countries, and that
henceforth no articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the
United States, are to be received in the ports of Great Britain or
Ireland, in vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States.
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