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- GLC#
- GLC04439
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 June 1798
- Author/Creator
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
- Title
- to Frederick Jacob Wichelhausen
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Letter forwarded to Wichelhausen, American Consul in Bremen, by Rufus King, American Ambassador to Britain. King's signature appears on the address. Secretary of State Pickering says he received Wichelhausen's letter of 16 January 1798 as well as several other letters and states he is providing diligent service. Comments on Wichelhausen's idea of issuing certificates to American merchant ships that state no British goods are being carried in order to counter a French decree of seizures. Says the French decrees are contrary to international law and will only be countered with force and not certificates. Foreign Office frank on address.
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