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388 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
mediately have informed Congress of it, who would
have taken, of course, the proper measures on the
occasion, but that should he now send a true account
of all that had passed between the Count de Florida
Blanca and himself thereon, he could not answer for
the disagreeable effects such intelligence would produce. The Count seemed to think the Spanish Minister would pay the bills that had been already
presented. . . .
The conference ended with a promise of the Count
de Montmorin that he would endeavour to speak to
the Count de Florida Blanca on the subject, but that
he was afraid he should not be able to do it fully
until Wednesday next. . . .
On Wednesday afternoon, 30th of August, I waited
on the Ambassador, to know the result of the conversation he had promised to have with the Minister
on our affairs. He did not appear very glad to see
me. I asked him whether he had seen the Minister
and conversed with him on our affairs. He said he
had seen the Minister, but that as Count d'Estaing
was present, he had only some general and cursory
conversation with him, and slipping away from that
topic, went on to observe that I would do well to
write another letter to the Minister, mentioning the
number of letters I had already written, my arrival
here, and my desire of a conference with him. I told
the Ambassador, that while four letters on the subject
remained unanswered, it could not be necessary to
write a fifth. That these letters had been written
with great politeness and circumspection ; that the
last was wrritten the day of my arrival at St. Ildefonso;
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000419 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 388 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. mediately have informed Congress of it, who would have taken, of course, the proper measures on the occasion, but that should he now send a true account of all that had passed between the Count de Florida Blanca and himself thereon, he could not answer for the disagreeable effects such intelligence would produce. The Count seemed to think the Spanish Minister would pay the bills that had been already presented. . . . The conference ended with a promise of the Count de Montmorin that he would endeavour to speak to the Count de Florida Blanca on the subject, but that he was afraid he should not be able to do it fully until Wednesday next. . . . On Wednesday afternoon, 30th of August, I waited on the Ambassador, to know the result of the conversation he had promised to have with the Minister on our affairs. He did not appear very glad to see me. I asked him whether he had seen the Minister and conversed with him on our affairs. He said he had seen the Minister, but that as Count d'Estaing was present, he had only some general and cursory conversation with him, and slipping away from that topic, went on to observe that I would do well to write another letter to the Minister, mentioning the number of letters I had already written, my arrival here, and my desire of a conference with him. I told the Ambassador, that while four letters on the subject remained unanswered, it could not be necessary to write a fifth. That these letters had been written with great politeness and circumspection ; that the last was wrritten the day of my arrival at St. Ildefonso; |
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