To John Jay from Tench Coxe, 16 November 1791
From Tench Coxe
[Philada. Novr. 16th. 1791]
Sir
I do myself the honor to enclose to you an enlarged copy of the Examination of Lord Sheffield, which one of our printers was desirous to republish.1 You will perceive, in the interspersed and additional new matters, I have endeavoured to bring up such Ideas as would tend to answer the report of the British privy council contained in a letter which I requested Mr. King to lay before you. In doing this it was most proper not to discover any Knowledge of the existence of such a proceeding on the part of Great Britain With perfect respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient & most hum[ble] Servant
Tench Coxe
The honorable The Chief Justice
ALS, NNC (EJ: 09821). Endorsed.
1. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Tench Coxe published his “A Brief Examination” in the American Museum (No. IX, 1791). It sought to refute Lord Sheffield’s anti-American strictures that had guided English commercial policy since 1783. See Jacob E. Cooke, Tench Coxe and the Early Republic (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1978), 203–8. For JJ’s reply, see below, JJ to Coxe, 6 Jan. 1792.