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I have been honored with your Excellency’s favor of the 24 th . Ult., which did not come to my Hands ’till some time after its arrival. The Sentiments which his Majesty is pleased to entertain of me, together with the polite manner in which your Excellency has been so obliging as to express them, demand my warmest Acknowledgements; and give additional Force to the many motives, which render me...
M r . Carmichael has delivered to me a Paper he had the Honor of recieving from Your Excellency before my arrival here, containing Heads of many important Inquiries, respecting which it was judged necessary that his catholic Majesty should be exactly informed before entering into a discussion with me and M r . Carmichal jointly or separately on the Subject of the Affairs of the united States...
By the address of Congress to their Constituents, on the Subject of their Finances, which I had the Honor of transmitting to your Excellency, you have doubtless observed, that in September last Congress came to a Resolution of emitting no more Bills, than with those already emitted and in Circulation, would amount to 200′000′000 of Dollars. That about the same Time they called upon their...
It is with the utmost Reluctance that I can prevail upon myself, to draw your Excellency’s Attention from the great objects that perpetually engage ^ it. ^ —but the Liberality, Frankness, and Candor which distinguished your Conduct towards me the last Evening has impressed me with such correspondent Sentiments of Delicacy, as to place me in a most disagreable Situation. Deeply sensible of the...
The propositions which your Excellency did me the favor to send me on the 7 th . ins t . have been considered with all the attention which their great importance demands. The evidence they contain of his Majestys friendly disposition towards the united states, will I am persuaded make correspondent impressions on the Citizens of America; and permit me to assure you that his Majestys desire of...
M r . Jay presents his respectful Compliments to his Excellency the Count D’Florida Blanca, and takes the Liberty of enclosing a Copy of a Note he has just recieved, respecting a Bill drawn upon him for 333 Dollars. From this his Excellency will percieve the painful Situation M r . Jay is in. He forbears making any Reflections on it, being persuaded that His Excellency’s wisdom and Sensibility...
M r : Jay has the Honor of representing to his Excellency the Count D’ Florida Blanca, that Thomas Shuker a Native of the State of New Hampshire, and Captain of an american armed vessel, was captured by the Enemy in September last, and finally carried to England. That in January last he shipped himself on Board the Dover Cutter of London, then lying in Yarmouth Road. That on the 13 th . of...
I have received the Note which your Excellency did me the honor to write on the 20 th Instant, and I take ^ the ^ earliest opportunity of expressing my thanks for your Excellencys permission to accept the bills mentioned in it, which I have accordingly done. Agreable to your Excellencys recommendation in the first conference, I have turned my thoughts very seriously to the objects which were...
M r . Jay presents his respectful Compliments to his Excellency the Count D’Florida Blanca. & has the Honor of informing him that he has been called upon to accept Bills to the Amount of between ten and eleven thousand Dollars. That the far greater Part of them belong to Mess rs . Joyce of this City, who have agreed to wait for an answer until Monday next. M r . Jay exceedingly regrets his...
I have the Honor of transmitting to your Excellency herewith enclosed a Copy of an Act of the State of Connecticut just come to Hand, in which are recited certain Resolutions of Congress passed the 18 th March last. These Resolutions are calculated to put the american Finances on a permanent Footing. They direct, among other Things, that Bills be issued, redeemable in Specie with Interest, at...
M r Jay presents his respectful Complements to his Excellency the Count D FloridaBlanca, and has the Honor of informing him that Don Carlos Maria Marraci of this Place has presented to him for acceptance Bills amounting in the whole to 1665 Dollars. The Mess rs . Joyce consent to having their Bills payable at Bilboa, but have acquainted M r . Jay that the Name of the House there by whom they...
M r Jay presents his respectful Compliments to his Excellency the Count D’Florida Blanca, and has the Honor of informing him, that since the Date of his last, Bills to the Amount of six thousand six hundred Dollars, have been presented to him for acceptance. M r Jay has prevailed upon the Holders of these Bills, to wait six or Eight Days for his Answer, on a Promise that the Time for their...
The Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 12 th . Inst: was delivered to me Yesterday. The kind Concern you are pleased to express for the Delay, which suspends my recieving a positive Answer respecting the Bills, demands my Acknowledgements, and is an additional Proof of that generous Sensibility, which enduced your Excellency to tell me, “that your Friendship for...
I never find myself more disagreably circumstanced, than when my Duty constrains me to be troublesome to those, to whom I wish to afford only Pleasure & Satisfaction. Such is my present Situation. Monday next I percieve is to be a critical Day. Other Bills, besides Mess rs . Joyes [Joyce], are then to be represented. M r . Gardoqui of Bilboa writes me that he has recieved Bills on me for...
I arrived here this morning, but was prevented from immediately doing myself the Honor of paying my Respects to your Excellency, by fatigue & Indisposition. In a Letter I had the Honor of writing to your Excellency on the 16 th . Instant I mentioned that the holders of the Bills began to grow impatient. On the 18 th . Instant I informed your Excellency by another Letter, that their...
The information I received yesterday from your Excellency, by M r Gardoqui, has drawn the affair of the Bills of Exchange to a conclusion. He told me that the Exigencies of the State would not permit his Majesty to provide for the payment of more of those bills than were already accepted, amounting to about 14′000 dollars. As it is important that every Nation at war should know exactly the...
Some of the Bills drawn on me, will probably become due, before M r Cabarrus’s operations can be brought to an Issue. So far as their Failure would injure the Credit, and relax the operations of a People actually at War with the Enemies of his Catholic Majesty, & opposing those Enemies in the very neighbourhood of his Dominions; it may certainly be considered as a matter interesting to Spain....
M r del Campo having informed M r Carmichael that the exact amount of the Cloathing purchased by M r Harrison, & the Expences attending it, ought to be ascertained, in order that the whole may at once be settled: I think it my Duty to acquaint your Excellency, that I have no further Intelligence on this Subject than what was conveyed in the last Letter I had the Honor to write you on the 15 th...
Be pleased to accept my Thanks for having ordered the Ballance due on the Cloathing, purchased by M r Harrison, to be paid; & for having so arranged the Payment of the Money to which the Bills of this month amount, as to enable the Embassador of France effectually effectually to interpose his kind offices to relieve me from the distressing necessity of protesting them. I lament the...
Agreable to your Excellencys Request I have now the honor of again submitting to your Consideration a particular State of the Case of the unfortunate Americans, who after Capturing the Dover Cutter and bringing her safe to Santa Cruz in the Island of Teneriff the 15 th April 1780 have ^ not ^ as yet reaped the Fruits they expected from that successful tho’ dangerous Enterprize. Your...
When Congress were pleased to order me to Spain, with the Commission of which I have had the Honor of presenting a Copy to your Excellency, I left my Country with the most sanguine Expectations that the important objects of it would be speedily accomplished. The Proofs they had recieved of his Majesty’s Friendship for them, the Interests of a common Cause, and the Information they had recieved...
I have now the Honor of communicating to your Excellency a Copy of certain Instructions I have rec d . from Congress, dated the 28 May 1781; and which were included in the Dispatches which your Excellency was so obliging as to deliver to me the Evening before the last, viz “It is their Instruction that you continue to acknowledge on all suitable occasions, the grateful Impressions made on...
When I consider that the delicate State of your Excellency’s health demands a greater degree of leisure & relaxation than the various business of your Office will permit, it is with great reluctance that I can prevail upon myself to remind your Excellency that Since our conference at Aranjues, the Affairs of the United States at this Court have made no Progress. The short residence of his...
Whatever may be the Issue of the american Revolution—whether that Country shall continue independent—or be doomed to reunite her Power with that of ^ G. ^ Britain, the good Will and Affection of the People of North America will never cease to ^ cannot in either Case ^ be of some Importance to ^ unimportant to ^ their Neighbours: nor will the y ma Impressions made upon their Minds ^
La repugnance que J’ai senti á depecher le Majeur Franks sans transmettre au Congrés á son retour les Informations qu’il s’attend aux sujets que J’ai eu l’honneur de soumettre à la consideration de V. S, m’a engagé à le retenir jusqu’à cette heure, surtout étant encouragé d’esperer que V. S. auroit trouvé le loisir dans la semaine derniere, pour entrer dans des conferences serièueses avec moi...
I have the honor of transmitting herewith enclosed the propositions requested by Your Exe y . on Wednesday Evening last I have endeavoured to render them as short & simple as possible & I flatter myself that the unreserved frankness with which they are written will be no less agreeable to your Exey than I am sure it is consistent with the desire & disposition of my Constituents As the issue of...
M r . Jay presents his Compliments to his Excellency the Count de Florida Blanca, and has the honor of informing him that he purposes to return to Madrid tomorrow, and will with pleasure attend his Excellency’s orders at the Escurial as soon as it may be convenient to his Excellency to render his presence there necessary. LbkCs, enclosed in JJ to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 1782...
The Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 8 th Instant, arrived this Morning. I consider myself much obliged by the Communication of the Facts mentioned in it, especially as it affords me an opportunity of manifesting to his majesty and to Congress, my attention to his Rights, and to their orders. I perfectly agree in Sentiment with your Excellency respecting the...
M r . Gardoqui informs me that his Majesty was pleased in the Month of March last to order “that when a prize taken by a French or Dutch Vessel should arrive in a Port of Spain, the Marine Judge of the District, should reduce to writing the Evidence of the Capture, and deliver it to the French or Dutch Consul (as the case might be) to be by him transmitted to the Admiralty from whence the...
It gives me much concern to be informed that the Conduct of Captain Hill of the Cicero, an American private ship of war, towards one of his Catholic Majesty’s Cutters, has been so represented to your Excellency, as to have given me occasion to an order for detaining him at Bilboa— This unfortunate affair is represented to me as follows viz t That Captain Hill in the Cicero, with a prize he had...
I have rec d . the Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 8 th . Instant. It gives me Pain to hear, that the Conduct of an American Vessel of war should be so reprehensible, as that of the Cicero has been represented to be. It is proper that I should inform your Excellency that the Captains of all American private Ships of War give Bond, with Sureties, to fulfil the...
I find myself constrained to beseech your Excellency, to think a little of my Situation. Congress flatter themselves, that the offer they have made, would certainly induce his Majesty, at least to assist them with some Supplies— The Residue of the Bills drawn upon me, remain to be provided for— Those payable in next month, amount to 31′809 Dollars—would it be too inconvenient to your...
M r Jay presents his Compliments to his Excellency the Count de Florida Blanca, & has the Honor of transmitting herewith enclosed, two Boston Gazettes, of the 20 & 27 Sept r . last; & a Copy of a Letter he has recieved from M r . Harrison dated at Cadiz the 20 th . Instant. These Papers contain all the american Intelligence which M r Jay has recieved by the Vessels lately arrived from thence.—...
M r . Jay presents his compliments to the Count de Florida Blanca, and has the honor of requesting his Attention to the enclosed memorial. M r . Jay had the honor of calling at his Excellency’s on Tuesday Evening last, but had the Misfortune of not finding him at home. As M r . Jay wishes to regulate his Visits by his Excellency’s Convenience, he begs the favor of his Excellency to inform him...
M r Gardoqui informed me yesterday that he had recieved an order to pay to M r Cabarrus on my acc t . 26000 Dollars, being somewhat more than the Ballance due on the 150.000; and for which be pleased to accept my thanks and acknowledgments. As the Residue of the Bills drawn upon me by Congress does not amount to a great sum, and as M r Cabarrus had generously offered to furnish it, provided...
Bills to a considerable Amount have been presented to me this afternoon for Payment. The Holders of them consent to wait until To morrow noon, for my positive and final answer. Your Excellency is too well apprized of every thing that can be said on this Subject, to render it necessary for me to multiply observations upon it. I have no Reason to expect aid from France, and I request the Favor...
I have recieved the Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write Yesterday— I have not recieved from Congress, nor their Secretary for foreign Affairs, nor from any of their Ministers in Europe, the least Information that the United states of America either had commenced, or intended to commence Hostilities against Portugal; and therefore have no Reason to believe that the Reports in...
When Count de Galvez lately came to the Government of the Havanna, he found there several Americans who, during the Administration of his Predecessor, had experienced much Rigour, and been exposed to various and unusual Hardships. The Intelligence of these Transactions had reached Congress, and given them Concern, when shortly afterwards they were informed that Count de Galvez had pursued...