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3o8 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
men ; the times of many of the Virginia and Maryland troops
had just expired but I heard with much pleasure that they were
re-enlisting with alacrity. No enterprise of any note had been
attempted by either army.
" Our trade is of late become securer than it hath been during
the war. Philadelphia, you know, hath some privateers out, and
their Letters of Marque and those from Baltimore going out
always in small fleets, are not only able to resist, but to overcome
any thing that they have met with of late in those seas. Eleven
sail came out of Baltimore when we did. They mounted about
120 guns and carried near 2000 hogsheads of tobacco.
" We had accounts that the Spaniards had taken Pensacola and
were advancing towards St. Augustine."
JAY TO DE NEUFVILLE & SON.1
Madrid, April 27, 1780.
Gentlemen :
I have had the pleasure of receiving your favour of
the 6th inst, and am much obliged by your kind
congratulations on my arrival in Europe.
Holkers. His Excellency intends having concerts once a week at his house—
he entertains very generally and with Elegance. I have seen him wear a suit
of cloathes of the Countess du la Luzerne's work, which does that Lady great
honor. Last Thursday the assemblies commenced, & there are private
dances, one a week ; to-morrow Evening there is one at the City tavern. Dr.
Cadwallader's death has prevented the young Ladies returning as soon as they
intended ; they are expected soon with Mrs. Dickinson to keep house at the
Gen1'5 in Second Street. The Gen1- has a Son. Mrs. Peters has lost her
mother. There has been a death in many families of my most intimate
acquaintance. . . . Col. Laurens having resigned his appointment to France
the choice of another is now in agitation. Several gentlemen are nominated—
Mr. Govr- Morris among the number ; he continues here tho' out of Congress.
Mr. Penn is returned to Congress & with him a Mr. Jones in the place of Mr.
Hewes [of North Carolina] who died shortly after you left America. I had
very good reason to suppose the Lady in the bush had made a conquest of him.
He had—poor man—amassed a great fortune in the Southern clime, but paid
the price of his health & life without any enjoyment of it."
1 A firm at Amsterdam, which shipped goods and military stores to America
during the war.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000339 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 3o8 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. men ; the times of many of the Virginia and Maryland troops had just expired but I heard with much pleasure that they were re-enlisting with alacrity. No enterprise of any note had been attempted by either army. " Our trade is of late become securer than it hath been during the war. Philadelphia, you know, hath some privateers out, and their Letters of Marque and those from Baltimore going out always in small fleets, are not only able to resist, but to overcome any thing that they have met with of late in those seas. Eleven sail came out of Baltimore when we did. They mounted about 120 guns and carried near 2000 hogsheads of tobacco. " We had accounts that the Spaniards had taken Pensacola and were advancing towards St. Augustine." JAY TO DE NEUFVILLE & SON.1 Madrid, April 27, 1780. Gentlemen : I have had the pleasure of receiving your favour of the 6th inst, and am much obliged by your kind congratulations on my arrival in Europe. Holkers. His Excellency intends having concerts once a week at his house— he entertains very generally and with Elegance. I have seen him wear a suit of cloathes of the Countess du la Luzerne's work, which does that Lady great honor. Last Thursday the assemblies commenced, & there are private dances, one a week ; to-morrow Evening there is one at the City tavern. Dr. Cadwallader's death has prevented the young Ladies returning as soon as they intended ; they are expected soon with Mrs. Dickinson to keep house at the Gen1'5 in Second Street. The Gen1- has a Son. Mrs. Peters has lost her mother. There has been a death in many families of my most intimate acquaintance. . . . Col. Laurens having resigned his appointment to France the choice of another is now in agitation. Several gentlemen are nominated— Mr. Govr- Morris among the number ; he continues here tho' out of Congress. Mr. Penn is returned to Congress & with him a Mr. Jones in the place of Mr. Hewes [of North Carolina] who died shortly after you left America. I had very good reason to suppose the Lady in the bush had made a conquest of him. He had—poor man—amassed a great fortune in the Southern clime, but paid the price of his health & life without any enjoyment of it." 1 A firm at Amsterdam, which shipped goods and military stores to America during the war. |
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