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34Q CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
are in office. It would be well to cultivate this
disposition whenever opportunities of doing it offer.
The resolution providing for Spanish prisoners at
New York was well judged.
Dr. Franklin is more advantageously circumstanced
than I am to gain and transmit to Congress intelligence of the disposition of Holland and of the
Northern Powers.
From the conduct of their Ministers here, I have
no reason to predict much to our advantage. They
are cold, and I have received nothing more than
common civility from any of them, except the Ministers of Holland and Sweden, and indeed not much
more from them. Perhaps they have been rendered
unusually cautious by an extract of a letter from
Madrid in the Leyden paper, mentioning the precious
reception Mr. Carmichael met with here, and the
attentions he received from the foreign Ministers.
You have probably seen it in the Courier de VEurope.
From what I hear of the character of the Empress
of Russia, I cannot but think that a prudent agent
there would be very useful. They say she is sensible,
proud, and ambitious. Hence I infer that such a
mark of attention would be grateful, and consequently
useful.
I should have given your Excellency seasonable
intelligence of the Spanish fleet and armament, which
lately sailed from Cadiz, as I believe to the Havana,
and whose objects I suspect to be the Floridas or
Jamaica, or probably both, but I omitted writing on
that subject previous to the departure of the fleet,
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000371 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 34Q CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. are in office. It would be well to cultivate this disposition whenever opportunities of doing it offer. The resolution providing for Spanish prisoners at New York was well judged. Dr. Franklin is more advantageously circumstanced than I am to gain and transmit to Congress intelligence of the disposition of Holland and of the Northern Powers. From the conduct of their Ministers here, I have no reason to predict much to our advantage. They are cold, and I have received nothing more than common civility from any of them, except the Ministers of Holland and Sweden, and indeed not much more from them. Perhaps they have been rendered unusually cautious by an extract of a letter from Madrid in the Leyden paper, mentioning the precious reception Mr. Carmichael met with here, and the attentions he received from the foreign Ministers. You have probably seen it in the Courier de VEurope. From what I hear of the character of the Empress of Russia, I cannot but think that a prudent agent there would be very useful. They say she is sensible, proud, and ambitious. Hence I infer that such a mark of attention would be grateful, and consequently useful. I should have given your Excellency seasonable intelligence of the Spanish fleet and armament, which lately sailed from Cadiz, as I believe to the Havana, and whose objects I suspect to be the Floridas or Jamaica, or probably both, but I omitted writing on that subject previous to the departure of the fleet, |
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