181To John Jay from Vergennes, 27 November 1780 (Jay Papers)
J’ai reçu exactement, Monsieur, la lettre que voux m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 22. 7bre dernier. Vous avez trop de preuves, Monsieur, de l’intérêt que le Roi prend à la cause de votre patrie, pour n’être pas persuadé qu’il auroit pris en considération la demande que vous faites, si cela eût été possible; mais les dépenses considérables de la guerre que Sa Majesté soutient jointes aux...
182To John Jay from Benjamin Franklin, 15 January 1782, enclosing Vergennes to Benjamin Franklin, 31 December 1781 (Jay Papers)
M r . Grand tells me that he hears from Madrid, you are uneasy at my long Silence.— I have had much Vexation and Perplexity lately with the Affair of our Goods in Holland: And I have so many urgent Correspondencies to keep up, that some of them at times necessarily suffer. I purpose writing fully to you per next Post. In the mean time I send the enclos’d for your Meditation. The “cursed...
183Enclosure: Papers on Spain Received from Edmond Charles Genet, II, 21 July 1783 (Jefferson Papers)
II Proofs of the Machievelism of the Cabinet of Versailles. Extract of a letter of M. de Vergennes to the Chargé des affaires of France with the US. Versailles. July 21. 1783. ‘The future existence of the Congress presents important questions to discuss, and I foresee that it will be some time before they will be decided. I think as you do, that the preservation of the Congress would suit us;...