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HAMILTON
, Alexander
Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette
New York, 29 avril 1798
4 pp. in-4, suscription : “the Marquis de la Fayette, By Mr de Bonname,
near Hamburgh”, petit trou, sans manque dû à l’ouverture du cachet
REMARQUABLEETRARELETTREPOLITIQUED’ALEXANDER
HAMILTON, L’UN DES SEPT PÈRES FONDATEURS DES
ÉTATS-UNIS.
HAMILTON REPREND, POUR LAFAYETTE, L’AFFAIRE DES
FUSILS DE BEAUMARCHAIS ; IL LUI EXPLIQUE LES RAISONS
DU DÉSACCORD ENTRE LES ÉTATS-UNIS ET LA FRANCE
FONDÉ SUR SON OPPOSITION AU COURS VIOLENT PRIS
PAR LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE. IL LUI CONSEILLE DE NE
PAS RENTRER EN FRANCE, EN LAQUELLE IL NE CROIT PLUS.
REMARKABLE AND RARE POLITICAL LETTER BY
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, ONE OF THE SEVEN FOUNDING
FATHERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
FOR LAFAYETTE, HAMILTON REOPENS THE CASE
OF BEAUMARCHAIS’ GUNS ; HE EXPLAINS TO HIM
THE REASONS FOR THE DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE FOUNDED ON HIS
OPPOSITION TO THE VIOLENT COURSE TAKEN BY THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION. HE ADVISES HIM NOT TO RETURN
TO FRANCE, IN WHICH HE NO LONGER BELIEVES
“I am very happy, My Dear Marquis, to receive lately a letter from
you. It enclosed one from General Dumas, which also gave me
pleasure (...) As to the affaire of M. de Beaumarchais, while I was in
the office of Secretary of the Treasury [1789-1795], I procured his
account to be settled provisionally and asked an appropriation for
the balance to depend for its application on the event of an inquiry
then making concerning a certain million of livres of what you have
no doubt heared. The results of this inquiry was not had when I left
the Department but it has since been obtained, and I am informed
that it traces to M. de Beaumarchais the missing million which
I believe extinguished his balance. This is the state of the business
according to my information ; but I presume before this, M.
Alexander Hamilton
par John Trumbull