HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.
![handle is hein.ustreaties/excdip0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Extract from the Code Diplomatique,
Par Portiez (de l'Oise,) Tribun.
A PARIS, MESSIDOR, AN X, JULY, 1802.
RELATIVE TO THE CONVENTION OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1800, BETWEEN
THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE.
[ TRANSLATION. ]
The following papers will serve to exhibit the causes which, for a mo-
ment, ruffled the harmony between the two States, and the grounds of the
treaty upon which the relations of interest and friendship, which at present
unite them, are based.
Grou'nds of the projected law relative to the convention concluded between
the French Republic and the United States, laid before the Corps Legis-
latif by Citizen Roderer, [who, with Messrs. Joseph Bonaparte and C. P.
Claret Fleurieu, on the part of France, and Messrs. Ellsworth, Davie and
Murray, on the part of the United States, negotiated the convention of
September 30, 1800,] counsellor of state, charged by the Consuls with the
presentation thereof :
Session of 5th Frimaire, An X, 26th November, 1801.
CITIZEN LEGISLATORS:
The treaty which I have the honor to present to the Corps Legislatif has
terminated the misunderstanding between France and America, from which
neither their distance, nor the recollections dear to the two nations, have
been able to preserve them during the revolution.
This treaty is the first of those which have signalized the year IX (1800)
'!by the peace of the world ; it is by its frank and liberal stipulations that the
Government has laid before Europe its pacific views, its moderation ; it is
the first ray which has beamed forth in the tempest, as if to shine upon the
last victories of France, to render them more dear to the victor, and to sweet-
en their aspect to the vanquished.
During the war which the United States had to sustain for their indepen-
I'dence, France had united herself with them by signal services and by two
jreaties-the one of alliance, the other of amity and commerce.
By the first, France had guarantied to the United States their liberty,
their sovereignty, their independence; she had engaged to lay down the
arms which she had taken up to second their efforts, only when England
i'hould have recognised their independence by a treaty ; finally, she had re-
nounced all indemnity for this protection.
As an acknowledgment for such engagements and such services, the
United States had guarantied to France her colonies; they had opened
their ports to French armed vessels and privateers accompanied with their
prizes ; they had permitted French privateers to arm in these same ports,
and to sell their prizes therein ; finally, they had interdicted the entry there-
in of privateers and armed vessels of nations at war with France, and which
should have prizes taken foiumi France,
J. & G, S. GIDEON, prilt(r.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.ustreaties/excdip0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)