1. Jefferson enclosed New York district attorney Nathan Sanford’s 30 July 1806 letter to Albert Gallatin (9 pp.; Papers of Gallatin [microfilm ed.], reel 12). Sanford wrote that even if he had opposed the motion to postpone William Stephens Smith’s trial, despite the reasons for not doing so that he had given in a previous letter to Gallatin, the trial still would not have taken place during the April term because the judge believed himself obliged to move to the next district court by a certain date. Opponents of the administration took advantage of the delay to propagate the argument that Jefferson and JM had implicitly sanctioned Francisco de Miranda’s expedition, and to foster the belief, rumored to have originated with Jacob Wagner, that Jefferson had ordered the prosecution. In Sanford’s estimate, these circumstances rendered Smith’s acquittal a foregone conclusion. Postponing Samuel Ogden’s trial thereafter “would have led to a repetition of all the embarrassments respecting the attendance of the Secretaries as Witnesses,” so Sanford elected to proceed, despite his expectation that Ogden would also be found not guilty.