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258 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
M. Gerard, who was so obliging as to wait till I could
embark in the frigate assigned for his service. After
being thirteen days at sea, the frigate was dismasted^
and her rudder so much damaged that it was thought
imprudent to proceed on our voyage. We therefore
steered for Martinique, and arrived there on the 18th
of December. I cannot on this occasion forbear expressing my warmest acknowledgments for the very
polite attention and hospitality with which we were
received and treated, both by the officers of government and many respectable inhabitants of that island.
We left Martinique on the 28th day of the same
month in the Aurora, in which I expected to have
gone to Toulon, but on touching at this place, it
appeared that the further prosecution of our voyage
had become impracticable without running risks that
could not be justified.
Thus circumstanced, the respect due to his Most
Catholic Majesty demanded an immediate communication of my appointment and arrival, which I had
the honour to make in a letter to his Excellency, Don
Joseph Galvez, of the Council of his Catholic Majesty,
and general Secretary of State for the Department of
the Indies, of which the enclosed is a copy.
Will you therefore, sir, be so obliging as to lay this
circumstance before his Most Christian Majesty, and
permit me, through your Excellency, to assure him of
the desire of Congress to enter into a treaty of alliance
and of amity and commerce with his Catholic Majesty,
and to request his favourable interposition for that
purpose ?
I am happy in being able to assure you that the
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000289 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 258 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. M. Gerard, who was so obliging as to wait till I could embark in the frigate assigned for his service. After being thirteen days at sea, the frigate was dismasted^ and her rudder so much damaged that it was thought imprudent to proceed on our voyage. We therefore steered for Martinique, and arrived there on the 18th of December. I cannot on this occasion forbear expressing my warmest acknowledgments for the very polite attention and hospitality with which we were received and treated, both by the officers of government and many respectable inhabitants of that island. We left Martinique on the 28th day of the same month in the Aurora, in which I expected to have gone to Toulon, but on touching at this place, it appeared that the further prosecution of our voyage had become impracticable without running risks that could not be justified. Thus circumstanced, the respect due to his Most Catholic Majesty demanded an immediate communication of my appointment and arrival, which I had the honour to make in a letter to his Excellency, Don Joseph Galvez, of the Council of his Catholic Majesty, and general Secretary of State for the Department of the Indies, of which the enclosed is a copy. Will you therefore, sir, be so obliging as to lay this circumstance before his Most Christian Majesty, and permit me, through your Excellency, to assure him of the desire of Congress to enter into a treaty of alliance and of amity and commerce with his Catholic Majesty, and to request his favourable interposition for that purpose ? I am happy in being able to assure you that the |
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