forwards documents relating to the Leopard's attack on the Chesapeake; instructs JM to demand the return of American seamen taken from the Chesapeake as well as reparations for damages; instructs him to inform the Russian minister at London that the…
instructions for negotiations in Madrid for the purchase of Florida; forwards correspondence concerning Spain's refusal to negotiate the cession of Florida to the United States; British involvement in American negotiations with Spain; assumption of…
supports American neutrality; George Washington's proclamation of neutrality is unconstitutional; American ships have right to be commissioned into foreign service; negotiations with Spain; Indian affairs