From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 25, 24 March 1780

To the President of Congress, No. 25

Paris, 24 March 1780. RC (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 353–356). LbC in John Thaxter’s hand (Adams Papers); notation by Thaxter: “Nos. 24 & 25 deliverd Mr. Izard 25th. March 1780.” printed:Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:570–572.

In this letter, received by Congress on 31 July and read on 1 Aug., John Adams, using information in British newspapers, analyzed the events leading to Rodney’s victory over the Spanish and his relief of Gibraltar. He then described resolutions taken by an Assembly at Dublin on 22 Feb., which called on Irish legislators to deny the right of the British Parliament to legislate for Ireland. Adams believed that this and similar disputes were evidence of the British Empire’s decline.

RC (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 353–356.) LbC in John Thaxter’s hand (Adams Papers); notation by Thaxter: “Nos. 24 & 25 deliverd Mr. Izard 25th. March 1780.” printed: (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:570–572.)

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 25, 24 March 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipients: Huntington, Samuel
President of Congress
Date: 24 March 1780

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Cite as: “From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 25, 24 March 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-09-02-0056. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 9, March 1780 – July 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 85.]