1To John Adams from the Marquis of Carmarthen, 24 January 1788 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Honour of your Letter of the 21 st. Instant, and I have given Directions for the necessary Notice to be sent to the Treasury of your Intention to embark your Effects on board the Ship Lucretia, and their Lordships will issue their Orders for your being allowed the Privileges usually granted to Foreign Ministers of equal Rank. I have received His Majesty’s Commands to...
2To John Adams from the Marquis of Carmarthen, 24 October 1787 (Adams Papers)
Lord Carmarthen presents his Compliments to M r. Adams, he has had the Honor to receive his Note, and will not fail to inform His Majesty of the Attention he has shewn in deferring to pay his Respects to Their Majesties, on Account of one of his Children being ill of the Small-Pox— Which Lord Carmarthen begs leave to observe was extremely proper.— Lord Carmarthen, having no Apprehension of...
3To John Adams from the Marquis of Carmarthen, 11 December 1786 (Adams Papers)
You will be pleased to recollect that, in the Month of May 1783, M r. Hartley communicated to You, and the other Plenipotentiaries then residing at Paris, pursuant to the Instructions he had received, a Memorial from the Merchants trading to South Carolina and Georgia, representing their just Claims to an Indemnification for Debts due to them from the Creek and Cherokee Indians, for the...
4To John Adams from the Marquis of Carmarthen, 6 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
I have received His Majesty’s Commands to inform You, that, in order to prevent the Abuses to which the Indulgence given by the Foreign Ministers is frequently liable, by granting that Protection which their Compassion often inclines them to afford to Persons who solicit it for the sole Purpose of screening themselves from the Laws of their Country, His Majesty has instructed His Secretary of...
5To John Adams from the Marquis of Carmarthen, 28 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
In Answer to the Memorial You did me the Honour to deliver to me on the 8 th. Dec r: , I have to observe to You, Sir, that it is His Majesty’s fixed Determination, upon the present, as well as on every other Occasion, to act in perfect Conformity to the strictest Principles of Justice and good Faith. The Seventh Article both of the Provisional and of the Definitive Treaties between His Majesty...
6To John Adams from the Marquis of Carmarthen, 30 November 1785 (Adams Papers)
The Commissioners for American Claims having notified to me, that, by Virtue of the Power given to them by the Act of Parliament now in force, they have appointed John Anstey of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister at Law, to repair to the United States of America, to enquire into such Facts and Circumstances as may be material for the better ascertaining the several Claims which have been or shall be...
7To John Adams from the Marquis of Carmarthen, 27 May 1785 (Adams Papers)
I forgot to mention to you today when you did me the honour to call upon me in Grosvenor Square, that it is customary for every Foreign Minister to send the Secretary of State a Copy of the Credential Letters they are directed by their Sovereigns to present to His Majesty or to The Queen. with regard to the superscription I find the credentials of the Ministers from the States General of the...