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...
It gives me very sensible pleasure to find, from the Act of Congress inclosed in your Excellency’s polite Favour of the 1 st . inst. that my Conduct in the chair and the execution of public Business, has been honoured by the approbation of Congress. The testimony given of it by this act demands my warmest acknowledgements. Be pleased, sir, to assure the Congress, that my happiness is...
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...
I have done what, perhaps, I shall be blamed for—but my pride as an American, and my feelings as a Man, were not on this Occasion to be resisted. The Officers of the Confederacy were here without Money, or the Means of getting any. The Idea of our Officers being obliged to sneak, as they phrase it, from the Company of French Officers for Fear of running in Debt with them for a Bottle of Wine,...
This letter and several copies of it are to be sent by the next Post to Bilboa, Cadiz, Nantes &c. The Object of it is to inform you that it is necessary immediately to cease drawing bills upon me—for the Present. Your Excellency may soon expect a full detail of Particulars from me, you will then receive an answer to every question that may be raised upon this letter. His Catholic Majesty has...
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...
Agreeable to my Promise to the Marquis De la flotte, I must inform your Excellency that a Monsieur Jean Guy Gautier, Merchant at Barcelona, recommended to the Marquis by Monsieur Aubere, the french Consul there, is desirous of becoming the Consul of the United States at that Port. He had been encouraged, as M r . Aubere says, to expect this appointment by Doctor Franklin, but as he supposed my...
On our arrival here M. Gerard told me that he was about to write to the governor and admiral at Port Royal, and asked me whether I also chose to write, or would leave to him the necessary communication, offering to mention to them whatever I might desire. As I was well satisfied that he should take the lead in the business I replied that I was obliged to him, but did not think it necessary for...
9From 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
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