[743] Jefferson to Madison, Jan. 25, 1798; Works: Ford, viii, 259.
[744] Jefferson to Madison, Feb. 15, 1798; Works: Ford, viii, 368.
[745] Skipwith to Jefferson, Paris, March 17, 1798; Gibbs, ii, 160.
[746] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 152, 157, 159, 161, 166.
[747] Ib. The President at this time communicated only the first dispatch, which was not in cipher. It merely stated that there was no hope that the envoys would be received and that a new decree directed the capture of all neutral ships carrying any British goods whatever. (Ib., 157.)
[748] Ib., 152; Richardson, i, 264; and Works: Adams, ix, 156.
[749] Jefferson to Madison, March 21, 1798; Works: Ford, viii, 386.
[750] Jefferson to Monroe, March 21, 1798; ib., 388-89.
[751] Jefferson to Madison, March 29, 1798; ib., 392.
[752] Jefferson to Pendleton, April 2, 1798; ib., 394-97.