Your Ex y s Fav r . of the 28 May & the Duplicate of it , have been come to my Hands thro those of the minister by whose Courier they were brought from Cadiz to this City. Every thing ^ w h ^ that Letter rendered proper for me to do has been done. The Issue is as yet uncertain. The Court are gone to S t . Ildefonso— I follow Tomorrow—for the Captors of the Dover Cutter I have as yet only been...
My last to Your Excellency was of the 25 th ult o . and was the more particular as M r : Toscan, who is appointed Vice Consul of France at Boston was the Bearer of it— He sailed from Bilboa On the 18 th Inst: I received from the Honorable M r . Lovell Three Letters written on one sheet, viz t : 20 Feb y . 9 & 31 March last— No other Copies of these Letters ever reached me— They arrived at...
I have had the honour of receiving your Excellency’s Letters of the ^ 6 th & ^ 17 October last with the Inclosures. They arrived the 30 Day of Jan y last— There is more than reason to suspect that the French Court were apprized of their Contents before they arrived and to beleive that the Construction of the Treaty by which the navigation of the Mississippi is supposed to be comprehended in...
4From John Jay to Samuel Huntington, 21 April 1781 (Jay Papers)
Accept my Thanks for your Favor of the 18 Dec r . which was delivered to me on the 13 th . of March last— I am happy to hear that your Health permits you ^ still ^ to continue in your import in the Chair and to sustain the Weight of Business which the Duties of that office impose upon you. We have within these five Days The ^ interesting ^ news of Gen Morgans ^ glorious
I ought & wish to write your Excellency a long Letter, but not by the Post. The french Fleet is not yet sailed—it will in my opinion be late in the Summer before the Fleet at Rh. Island will be reinforced. This Court has promised me one hundred and fifty thousand Dollars. Some Cloathing is now shipping on Acc t . of Congress from Cadiz. Russia has offered her mediation to England & the States...
Is it possible that my Letter of September requesting Congress to forbear drawing should not have arrived? Many Copies were sent by various Vessels from different Ports, and yet Bills daily arrive I have been promised 150 Thousand Dollars when it will be paid is uncertain It is hard to make brick without Straw Col. Livingston left this the Beginning of last Month with long Letters he is with...
Your Excellency will receive herewith enclosed certain Papers from Morocco viz t : N o . 1. containing a Letter of 21 Ap: last to me from Audibert Caille who stiles himself the Consul appointed by the Emperor for such foreign Nations as have none of their own in his Dominions, to protect the Strangers who may come to traffic in his Ports, pursuant to two Proclamations published last Year— N o...
It w d . give me great pleasure if it to have an opportunity of writing as a [ illegible ] to converse with you ^ to Congress ^ without Reserve—but Prudence ^ too often ^ Forbids it— Every Letter I receive from abroad bears Marks of Inspection, and I have too much
The last particular Letter I had the honor of writing to your Excellency was dated the 26 th May, and with a Duplicate was carried to Cadis by M r . Harrison, who sent one by the Peacock, Captain Davis to Boston, and the other by the General Arnold, Captain Jenkins to Alexandria in Virginia. They both sailed in June last, and the former, I hear, arrived safe after a short Passage. I have since...
10From John Jay to Samuel Huntington, 29 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
The Duplicate Origin Your Letter of the 5 Nov r . last never reached me. The Duplicate of it together with your Favor of the 12 July were delivered to me this Day ^ are now before me ^ — I thank you for them both I am happy to hear that none of my Transactions mentioned in the Letters you allude to ^ to ^ “met with the least Disapprobation from