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WILLIAM CARMICHAEL TO JAY. 269
represent the apparent candor and liberality of his sentiments. He entered fully into the good disposition of his
Court, and informed me, that the King, as a further proof
of his friendship for us, had agreed to pay us annually the
additional sum of three millions of livres during the continuance of the war, in order to enable us to purchase the
necessaries for our army, &c. &c. and that his Majesty had
also determined to send a considerable marine and land
force early in the year to America, to be at the disposition
and under the direction of our General. Seventeen sail of
the line, and four thousand troops, are also to be sent to
the West Indies, if they have not already sailed. Judge
after this, if attention, candor, and apparent unreservedness,
were not the more necessary on my part.
On inquiring, I found that M. Galvez was at the Pardo,
about two leagues from Madrid, where the King resides at
present, and in the course of conversation discovered, that
the proper channel of address ought to have been through
the Count de Florida Blanca.
The Ambassador offered to introduce me, but as this
could not be done with propriety without previous application, he undertook to make it the day following, and to fix
the time for my reception by both, and I think the manner
will be the sole difficulty.
Among other circumstances, which induce this conclusion,
is the certain knowledge I have obtained, that M. Mirales
received instructions several months past to enter into
engagements with Congress, to take into pay a body of
troops to assist in the conquest of Florida. Your own
good sense will point out the use which may be made of
this intelligence. It answers to one point of the instructions which I had the honor to receive from you. The
short time I have been in this city has not hitherto given
me an opportunity of writing so circumstantially as I could
wish, in the matters abovementioned, and much less of
giving a decided opinion on many objects contained in
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000300 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | WILLIAM CARMICHAEL TO JAY. 269 represent the apparent candor and liberality of his sentiments. He entered fully into the good disposition of his Court, and informed me, that the King, as a further proof of his friendship for us, had agreed to pay us annually the additional sum of three millions of livres during the continuance of the war, in order to enable us to purchase the necessaries for our army, &c. &c. and that his Majesty had also determined to send a considerable marine and land force early in the year to America, to be at the disposition and under the direction of our General. Seventeen sail of the line, and four thousand troops, are also to be sent to the West Indies, if they have not already sailed. Judge after this, if attention, candor, and apparent unreservedness, were not the more necessary on my part. On inquiring, I found that M. Galvez was at the Pardo, about two leagues from Madrid, where the King resides at present, and in the course of conversation discovered, that the proper channel of address ought to have been through the Count de Florida Blanca. The Ambassador offered to introduce me, but as this could not be done with propriety without previous application, he undertook to make it the day following, and to fix the time for my reception by both, and I think the manner will be the sole difficulty. Among other circumstances, which induce this conclusion, is the certain knowledge I have obtained, that M. Mirales received instructions several months past to enter into engagements with Congress, to take into pay a body of troops to assist in the conquest of Florida. Your own good sense will point out the use which may be made of this intelligence. It answers to one point of the instructions which I had the honor to receive from you. The short time I have been in this city has not hitherto given me an opportunity of writing so circumstantially as I could wish, in the matters abovementioned, and much less of giving a decided opinion on many objects contained in |
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