By the treaties subsisting between his most Christian Majesty and the United States of America, a power is reserved to his Catholic Majesty to accede to the said treaties and to participate in their stipulations at such time as he shall judge proper, it being well understood nevertheless, that if any of the stipulations of the said treaties are not agreeable to the King of Spain, his Catholic...
692To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 22 December 1779 (Jay Papers)
I am told there will be an opportunity of send g . this to you, I wish therefore to imbrace it tho as I know not how safe the conveyance may be, I shall only deal in generals— You who know the share that you have in a heart too susceptible of tender emotions will easily believe the pain it gave me to find no token of your friendship, no farewell line at this place, where I hastened immediately...
693To John Jay from Seth Harding, 27 December 1779 (Jay Papers)
I arrived within about three Miles of this Harbor, about Eight O’Clock last Evening when we were obligated to come to Anchor, where we lay till this Morning, weighed Anchor about Eight OClock, and stood in for the Harbor where we arrived about 9 OClock. Have not had Time to make much inquiry about Spars, &c. for the Ship; but have Reason to think, from what I have heard, that I shall not be so...
694To John Jay from the Committee for Foreign Affairs (James Lovell, Robert R. Livingston, and William Churchill Houston) … (Jay Papers)
By the inclosed Resolves of Congress you will find that we are become more dependent upon your vigorous Exertions for the Amelioration of our Currency than you perhaps expected when you left Philadelphia. We think it of so much Importance that you Should be early apprized of the measures determined upon respecting Bills of Exchange that we do not chuse to omit this good Opportunity of...
695To John Jay from Gouverneur Morris, 3 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
You will doubtless be glad to hear News from this Quarter. Your Friends are all well. Our Army are hutted in the Vicinity of Morris Town except a Detachment consist. of the North Carolina & Virginia Troops who are on their March to the Southward three thousand — The Don on the Part of the Governor of havannah did lately propose to Congress to assist in the Reduction of Florida .— They have...
696To John Jay from William Churchill Houston, 7 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is not simply from being a Member of the Committee of Foreign Affairs that I take the Liberty of troubling you; my Curiosity to have Access to all the Sources of Knowledge in publick Affairs, is a further Apology. For this I confess I have a boundless Thirst and Eagerness. A Vessel, lately arrived to the Eastward, reports to have spoken with the Confederacy on the Coast of France, and I...
697To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 10 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have just steped out of Congress to let you hear by this opportunity that your freinds in this part of the world are well & not unmindful of you & to acknowledge the rec t of yours from Reedy Island which after long & weary-some peregrinations reached ^ me ^ three days ago at this place— The Cypher it contains is not sufficiently intricate to be in any wise relyed on if the conveyance by...
698To John Jay from William Carmichael, 15 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I arrived in this city late in the Evening of the 11 th after a tedious and Disagreable Journey. We had heavy rains for more than two thirds of the time, which render’d the roads so very bad that neither persuasion, threats or money could induce our Muleteers to proceed faster. My own State of health and the situation in which I left Cadiz would have prevented me from quitting the company [ of...
699To John Jay from William Carmichael, 18 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I did myself the honor of writing to you by a Courier whom the French Embassador dispatched to Cadiz yesterday morning since which I have been introduced by Him to their excellencies the Marquis de Florida Blanca & Don Joseph de Galvez. I deliver[ed] your letter to the latter and explain[ed] to the former the reason which induce[d] you [to] address the other
700To John Jay from Floridablanca, 24 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
Habiendo yo recibido de mano del S r . D n . José de Galvez la carta que V. S. le hà dirigido por medio de M r . de Carmichael, y hecho presente al Rey todo su contexto; me manda responda à V. S. diciendole que S. M. há celebrado, y aplaudido la eleccion que de su persona há hecho el Congreso Americano para el encargo que expresa dha carta, asi por lo recomendables que son para S. M los...