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RANDOLPH, EDMUND, Interesting State Papers, from President Washington, M. Fauchet and M. Adet, the late and Present Ambassadors from the French convention...likewise Conferences with George Hammond, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from his Britannic Majesty as laid by the Pr
Philadelphia Printed. London: Re-printed for J. Owen and W. Richardson, 1796. First English edition. 8vo. Half-title not present. Recent cloth-backed boards. Some wear to corners, light offsetting and browning, else a very good copy. Haynes 14786; Sabin 34900. ¶ Randolph was called to meet with Washington and shown a group of dispatches from French Minister Fauchet to his government which had been intercepted by a British ship. They inferred that Randolph had had received monies for information. Randolph resigned and set out for Newport to find Fauchet and get the truth. Fauchet promised to provide a document but left the country sending a letter to Randolph by the pilot of the ship saying that the full text of the despatches that Washington had (Nos. 3 and 6 not having been present) would be sent to him by Minister Adet. Fauchet's document stated that Randolph did not confide "any act, any intention of Government, by virtue of any concert with me, or in consequence of any emolument received by him, or for the expectation or hope of any recompence promised, or with any other view than to maintain a good harmony between France and the United States...he never communicated to me what his duty would reporve.... I have never insinuated, nor could I insinuate in that letter, that I suspected on his part even the most distant corruption...I declare moreover, that no name or sum was mentioned to me; that Mr. Randolph never received, either directly or indirectly, by himself or by another for his use, one shilling from myself, by my order, or according to me knowledge, heresay or belief, from any other public officer of France." Randolph's work prints the texts of the correspondence concerning the matter and the despatches involved. He was cleared of charges.¦ This was first published anonymously in Philadelphia 1795 as "Vindication of Mr. Randolph's Resignation"
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