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.

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

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CV.--TO MR. HAMMOND, April 13,1792

The Secretary of State presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond, and
encloses him the draught of a letter to the President of the United
States, which he has prepared to accompany Mr. Hammond's communication
of the 11th and letter of the 12th. The whole will probably be laid by
the President before the legislature, and perhaps communicated to the
public, in order to let the merchants know that they need not suspend
their shipments, but to the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Before
sending the letter to the President, the Secretary of State has chosen
to communicate it to Mr. Hammond in a friendly way, being desirous to
know whether it meets his approbation, or whether he would wish any
alterations in it.

April 13,1792.

LETTER CVI.--TO THE PRESIDENT, April 13, 1792

TO THE PRESIDENT.

Philadelphia, April 13, 1792,

Sir,

I have the honor to lay before you a communication from Mr. Hammond,
Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, covering a clause
of a statute of that country relative to its commerce with this, and
notifying a determination to carry it into execution henceforward.
Conceiving that the determination announced could not be really meant
as extensively as the words import, I asked and received an explanation
from the minister, as expressed in the letter and answer herein
enclosed: and on consideration of all circumstances, I cannot but
confide in the opinion expressed by him, that its sole object is to
exclude foreign vessels from the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. The
want of proportion between the motives expressed and the measure, its
magnitude, and consequences, total silence as to the proclamation on
which the intercourse between the two countries has hitherto hung, and
of which, in this broad sense, it would be a revocation, and the recent
manifestations of the disposition of that government to concur with this
in mutual offices of friendship and good will, support his construction.
The minister, moreover, assured me verbally, that he would immediately
write to his court for an explan