es,
and other printed papers, had better come through the channel of
Monsieur de la Motte at Havre, to whom I shall also generally address my
letters to you, and always the gazettes and other printed papers.

Mr. Short will receive by the same conveyance, his appointment as
Minister Resident at the Hague.

I have the honor to be, with great esteem and respect, Dear Sir, your
most obedient and most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER XCV.--TO MR. HAMMOND, February 2, 1792

TO MR. HAMMOND.

Philadelphia, February 2, 1792.

Sir,

On the receipt of your letter of the 14th of December, I communicated
it to the President of the United States, and under the sanction of his
authority, the principal members of the executive department made
it their duty to make known in conversations generally, the explicit
disclaimer, in the name of your court, which you had been pleased to
give us, that the government of Canada had supported or encouraged the
hostilities of our Indian neighbors in the western country. Your favor
of January the 30th, to the same purpose, has been, in like manner,
communicated to the President, and I am authorized to assure you, that
he is duly sensible of this additional proof of the disposition of the
court of London to confine the proceedings of their officers in our
vicinage within the limits of friendship and good neighborhood, and that
a conduct so friendly and just will furnish us a motive the more for
those duties and good offices which neighbor nations owe each other.

You have seen too much, Sir, of the conduct of the press in countries
where it is free, to consider the gazettes as evidence of the sentiments
of any part of the government: you have seen them bestow on the
government itself, in all its parts, its full share of inculpation. Of
the sentiments of our government on the subject of your letter, I cannot
give you better evidence than the statement of the causes of the Indian
war, made by the Secretary of War on the 26th of the last month,
by order of the President, and inserted in the public papers. No
interference on the part of your nation is therein stated among the
causes of the war. I am happy however in the hope, that a due execution
of the treaty will shortly silence those expressions of public feeling,
by removing their cause.

I have the honor to be, with great respect and esteem, Sir, your most
obedient and most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

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