61To John Jay from John Quincy Adams, 9 January 1795 (Jay Papers)
M r . M’Evers has just delivered me your favours of the 13 th : and 14 th : of last month, and I take the earliest opportunity to acknowledge the obligation, which delay, might prevent me from transmitting. M r . Schermerhorn some time since handed me also a letter of introduction from you. Please to accept my thanks, Sir, for the acquaintance with these Gentlemen. I shall esteem myself...
62To John Jay from John Sloss Hobart, 7 January 1795 (Jay Papers)
Having heard this morning that the Adriana is to sail in a day or two for London I embrace the opportunity of my being in town to wish you and the family with you the compliments of the season. I paid my respects to M rs . Jay on coming to town, and found her in good health and sprits having just returned from a visit to our Friends at Rye, but I suppose you’ll hear the particulars of that...
63To John Jay from William Short, 7 January 1795 (Jay Papers)
I had the honor of recieving by the last English mail your letter of the 24 th . of Nov r . & have to return your many thanks for the communication you are so good as to make me, of the signature of a treaty with H[is]. B[ritannic]. M[ajesty]. The progress of this negotiation has been flawed, with an attentive & anxious interest, by all the observing part of Europe, & more peculiarly of course...
64To John Jay from David Hartley, 5 January 1795 (Jay Papers)
I have been requested by some very intimate friends who are now in france, to make application to you to assist them in procuring a pass port to quit France. I will explain the case to you, but I must previously explain the ground of the application personally to you. The parties are M r & M rs Miniconi. M rs Miniconi is the Daughter of the late M r W m Neate a merchant of London, & jointly...
65From George Washington to John Jay, 18 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
Since writing to you by Mr Bayard—about the first of November —I have been favored with your letters of the 13th of Septembr and 2d of October. As the sentiments contained in the first of these, respecting the communications of Mr Monroe to the National Convention of France, were also transmitted in a private letter from you to the Secretary of State, and replied to by him (both of which I...
66To John Jay from John Trumbull, 10 December 1794 (Jay Papers)
In consequence of your directions, I spoke to M r . Burges of the propriety of making some acknowledgement on your part to the Two Clerks who wrote the Copies of the Treaty;—and in consequence of our conversation I have this morning enclosed Ten Pounds to Him, with a Request that He will divide it to the Two, according to their Merits. This Conversation introduced the general Subject of...
67To John Jay from John Quincy Adams, 2 December 1794 (Jay Papers)
On my return here at the close of the last week from Amsterdam I received your favour of the 24 th : ultim o : and request you to accept my thanks for the communications it contains. By public report I had already heard not only that the Treaty was signed, but the pretended purport of many articles of its contents. I had already felt myself obliged ^to leave^ ardent, and in some instances...
68To John Jay from Grenville, 21 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I think I owe it to the confidence established between us to communicate to you privately the Copy of a Dispatch which I send by this packet to M r . Hammond. You will certainly understand that what he is expressly restrained from stating ministerially in America, is not meant to be so stated to you by me. But you will recollect that I have frequently conversed with you upon these points, & I...
69To John Jay from John Quincy Adams, 21 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
The enclosed Letter, accompanied a packet which I intended to have sent by M r : Vall-travers; but having since immediate opportunities to America from hence I shall not trouble you with my dispatches at present. It is here said that on the meeting of Parliament the King of Great Britain is to mention in the speech from the throne the signature of a Convention for the settlement of the...
70To John Jay from John Sloss Hobart, 20 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I embrace this opportunity to introduce to your notice M r John Aspinwall, who will have the honor to deliver this letter— he is the youngest son of the late M r . John Aspinwall of Flushing, and is going to reside for some years in Britain with the best of all possible recommendations for a merchant, a fair irreproachable character and plenty of cash— I drank a glass of porter and smoaked a...
71To John Jay from Grenville, 19 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have the honour to transmit to you the Papers which you have already seen relative to the Claims of certain Persons having Rights of Remainder, or other Interests in Estates confiscated in America during the late War, but whose Rights or Interests according to Justice and the established Laws under which those Estates were held, could not be affected by such Confiscation. I have no doubt...
72To John Jay from Peter Jay Munro, 19 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I had the pleasure of writing to you last night, under an Impression, that the Rosina (or Rosanna) would have sailed early this morning, but her being detained, affords me an opportunity of writing you a longer Letter. I am much indebted to you, for the Information respecting M rs . White, and entirely acquiese, in the Truth of your Observations to her Son. My Ideas relative to a...
73To John Jay from John Quincy Adams, 14 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
Mr. Vall-travers informs me that he intends going to London, where he purposes paying his respects to you. I have therefore requested him to take charge of a packet for the Secretary of State, which I have taken the Liberty of enclosing to your care, according to the permission, you were pleased to give me on the day of my departure from London. The opportunities of sending to America from...
74To John Jay from Edmund Randolph, 12 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
In my public Letter of this date, you will find every thing of an official Nature, which we are able to communicate at present. Your private favor of the 13 th . of September last brings with it the satisfactory conviction, that I have not misplaced my confidence in your candor. You may be assured, that, as in the whole of our diplomatic connection hitherto, I have arrived at every...
75To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 11 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I was mortified by seeing in this morning’s Paper that M r . Bayard had sailed the 8 th . for London— had I been informed of his going, with what pleasure w d . I have written to you by him— By the same Paper I see advertised the Departure of a Vessel about the middle of the present month for London— it shall not be my fault if you do not hear from me by that— The last letter I’ve had the...
76To John Jay from Tench Coxe, 8 November 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have the honor to send you by way of letter a recent publication, which contains among other matter some of my ideas on the present state of our public affairs. If you can find time for a perusal of the work or even of all the text that follows the 379 th . page, and an inspection of the documents inserted in that part of the work, so far as you have not seen them, or the text, it may be of...
77From George Washington to John Jay, 1–4 November 1794 (Washington Papers)
On tuesday last I returned from my tour to the westward; on monday, Congress, by adjournment, are to meet; and on the day following, Mr Bayard, according to his present expectation, is to leave this city for London. Thus circumstanced (having so little time between my return, and the opening of the Session, to examine papers, and to prepare my communications for the legislature) you will...
78To John Jay from Peter Jay Munro, 16 October 1794 (Jay Papers)
I had the pleasure of writing to you & Cousin Peter, upon the 10 th . Instant, and being now ready to set off for Albany, I leave this Letter, to be forwarded to you, in Case an opportunity should offer during my absence. I have also left a Letter for my father, which will be sent by the same Conveyance— In his Letter to me, he states many reasons, why he supposes the Lands above Albany, are...
79To John Jay from Grenville, 7 October 1794 (Jay Papers)
It shall certainly be my object to hasten as much as possible the examination & consideration of the Contre projet which I have received from you. But on such attention as I have hitherto been able to give to it I find so much new matter, and so much variation in the form & substance of the Articles proposed in the projet, that I am very apprehensive the discussion of these points will of...
80To John Jay from William Scott, 10 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have the Honor of sending the Paper drawn up by D r Nicholl & myself— It is longer and more particular than perhaps you meant—but it appeared to be an Error on the better Side rather to be too minute than to be ^too^ reserved in the Information We had to give— And it will be in your Excellency’s Power either to apply the whole or such Parts as may appear more immediately pertinent to the...
We have the Honor of transmitting, agreeably to your Excellencys Request a Statement of the general Principles of Proceeding in Prize Causes in British Courts of Admiralty and of the Measures proper to be taken when a Ship and Cargo are brought in as Prize within their Jurisdictions. The general Principles of Proceeding cannot, in our Judgment, be stated more correctly or succinctly than we...
82To John Jay from Henry Dundas, 9 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
you was so obliging as to say you would do me the honour of taking a quiet Dinner with me at my retreat at Wimbledon. If Thursday next is agreable to you, and your Son and M r Trumbull, I shall be very happy of your Company that day. I dine soon after four o clock, and I have the honour to remain, with great Respect Sir your most obedient and humble Servant ALS , NNC ( EJ : 05436 ). Endorsed:...
83To John Jay from Grenville, 7 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
I send You the inclosed Paper as containing what you perhaps may not have seen, & what cannot fail to be interesting to you, as I will not deny that it has been to me. I will beg you to return the paper as I preserve the series. I do not believe that you personally will much envy M r Monroe the honour of the paternal kiss which he has received; and if such an exhibition is thought not to...
In Order to narrow as much as possible the Objects of our Discussions, I have stated in the enclosed paper what occurs to me on the different points to which your notes apply, except the 2 d : 3 d : & 4 th : Articles of those Notes, which I have reservd for further examination and inquiry;— I expect that by tuesday or wednesday at furthest I shall be able to converse further with you on those...
85From George Washington to John Jay, 5 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
This encloses a copy of my last —written, as you will readily perceive, with much haste; as one indication of it, I omitted the stamp of privacy; but you would not, I am well persuaded, consider it as official nor in any other light than as the private sentiments very hastily thrown together of Your Obedient and Affectionate ALS (letterpress copy), DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . See GW to Jay, 30 August .
86To John Jay from Grenville, 5 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
Lord Grenville presents his Compliments to M r . Jay— He has receiv’d M r . Jay’s note, with the enclos’d remarks, and will be glad to see him at his Office Tomorrow at Twelve o’Clock. Lord Grenville has in the mean time the Honor to enclose to M r . Jay, some observations which have occurr’d to him, on the perusal of the Paper which he receiv’d from M r . Jay. Observations respecting the...
87To John Jay from George Washington, 5 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
This encloses a copy of my last—written, as you will readily perceive, with much haste as one indication of it, I omitted the stamp of privacy, but you would not, I am well persuaded, consider it as official nor in any other light than as the private sentiments very hastily thrown together of Your obedient and Affectionate ALS , DLC ( EJ : 10633 ). LbkC , DLC : Washington. In this letter of 30...
88From George Washington to John Jay, 30 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 23d of June from London (and duplicate) have both been received; and your safe arrival after so short a passage, gave sincere pleasure, as well on private as on public account, to all your friends in this Country; & to none in a greater degree, I can venture to assure you, than it did to myself. As you will receive letters from the Secretary of States Office giving an...
89To John Jay from Grenville, enclosing Draft Treaties of Amity and Commerce, 30 August 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have now the honour to transmit to you two projets the one for regulating all points in dispute between His Majesty and the United States, the other for the establishment of commercial regulations. You will perceive that I have proceeded in forming these projets on the foundation of the paper you communicated to me, but that I have occasionally made such variations as seemed to me to be just...
90To John Jay from Grenville, 17 August 1794 (Jay Papers)
I yesterday received your letter & can with truth assure you that I am not less desirous than you naturally are to expedite the conclusion of our negotiation, & that I feel the force of the reasons you mention for wishing to avoid unnecessary delay. You cannot on the other hand but be sensible of the multitude & urgency of other business at the present moment which makes it impossible to me to...