INTERESTING STATE PAPERS, FROM PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, M. FAUCHET AND M. ADET, THE LATE AND PRESENT AMBASSADORS FROM THE FRENCH CONVENTION TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. LIKEWISE CONFERENCES WITH GEORGE HAMMOND, ESQ. MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY, AS LAID BY THE PRESIDENT BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THEIR PRESENT SESSION; QUOTED BY EDMUND RANDOLPH, LATE SECRETARY OF STATE, AND INCLUDED IN A DEFENCE OF HIS RESIGNATION OF THAT OFFICE. PHILADELPHIA, PRINTED.
London: Re-Printed for J. Owen... 1796. [2], 136pp. No half title. Disbound, title and late leaves soiled. Else, clean with widely scattered foxing. Good+.
This is the first British printing of Randolph's Vindication, a 1795 Philadelphia publication in which he sought to preserve his reputation after his humiliating resignation as Washington's Secretary of State. Pickering and other Anglophiles in the Administration suspected Randolph had urged Washington to repudiate the Jay Treaty "in order to foment a war with England that would throw the United States into the hands of such Jacobins as they suspected Randolph secretly was." Flexner, Washington The Indispensible Man 332. They charged him with leaking secrets to the French and Randolph resigned under fire. Randolph's outraged letter to the President is printed, along with other material on the allegations.
Haynes 14786. Sabin 34900 [101709n]. This printing not noted in Howes R55. Not in Swem. Item #7743
Price: $250.00