1From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1794 (Adams Papers)
I am desired by our old Acquaintance Mr D’Ivernois to transmit you the inclosed Papers for your inspection Opinion and Advice. The poor Fellow has been obliged to fly a Second time into Banishment. The first time, he was driven out as a Democrat: but it is now, Day about, as they Say, in Geneva, and he is compelled to run, as an Aristocrat. Shall We print his History? What Shall We do with his...
2To John Adams from John Jay, 21 November 1794 (Adams Papers)
From the Day of my appointment to this mission, my Attention has been much withdrawn from my friends, and confined to the Business which brought me here; & which has at last been terminated by a Treaty. In future I shall have more Leisure to attend to my Friends, and to my own affairs— Both your sons arrived here in good Health. I wrote to my friend John lately, but as yet have not had a...
3To John Adams from Edmund Randolph, 21 November 1794 (Adams Papers)
I am extremely unwilling, that the department of state should become the vehicle of letters to congress, the contents of which may be improper, and the authors of which perhaps ought to have addressed themselves to the executive, rather than the legislature. Inclosed are two sealed letters, which have been forwarded to the President. He cannot open them, because they are addressed to the...
4From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 21 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
Gentlemen of the Senate, In the negotiation between the United States and his Catholic Majesty, I have received satisfactory proofs of attention and ability, exerted in behalf of the United States, to bring it to a happy and speedy issue. But it is probable that by complying with an intimation, made to the Secretary of State by the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty, much further delay in...
5From George Washington to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 21 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
I lay before Congress copies of a letter from the Governor of the State of New York, and of the exemplification of an act of the Legislature thereof, ratifying the amendment of the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the Senate and House of Representatives, at their last Session, respecting the judicial power. LS , DNA : RG 46, entry 33; LB , DLC:GW . For the enclosures, see George...
6To John Jay from Grenville, 21 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I think I owe it to the confidence established between us to communicate to you privately the Copy of a Dispatch which I send by this packet to M r . Hammond. You will certainly understand that what he is expressly restrained from stating ministerially in America, is not meant to be so stated to you by me. But you will recollect that I have frequently conversed with you upon these points, & I...
7From John Jay to Edmund Randolph, 21 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
On the 19 th Inst. a Treaty was signed— the next Day it was, together with my letters to You, N o . 21—22—& 23. despatched to the Packet at Falmouth, which had been detained.— I now send You duplicates of them all, by M r . Blaney, a Gentleman of Virginia, recommended to me by Gov[erno] r . Lee. The earliest advices from you will be expedient. There are articles in this Treaty which will give...
8From John Jay to John Adams, 21 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
From the Day of my appointment to this mission, my Attention has been much withdrawn from my Friends, and confined to the Business which brought me here; & which has at last been terminated by a Treaty. In future I shall have more Leisure to attend to my Friends, and to my own affairs— Both your Sons arrived here in good Health— I wrote to my friend John lately, but as yet have not had a...
9From John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 21 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have within a few Weeks past written to you by the Eagle—by the Packet—and by Cap t . Burril bound to New York— This letter will go by the way of Virginia, under cover to the Secretary of State— It will give you Pleasure to be informed that my mission has been successful— A Treaty was yesterday signed, and will be transmitted under the same cover with this Letter— I hope it will give...
10To John Jay from John Quincy Adams, 21 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
The enclosed Letter, accompanied a packet which I intended to have sent by M r : Vall-travers; but having since immediate opportunities to America from hence I shall not trouble you with my dispatches at present. It is here said that on the meeting of Parliament the King of Great Britain is to mention in the speech from the throne the signature of a Convention for the settlement of the...