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398 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
the proposal of a treaty. We agreed perfectly well
that mutual interest should be the basis of it, and I
added, that the good opinion entertained of the King
and nation by America was also a pleasing circumstance. He said, however that might be, America
did not seem inclined to gratify Spain in the only
point in which she was deeply interested. Here followed much common-place reasoning about the navigation of the Mississippi, of which your Excellency
has heretofore heard too much to require a repetition.
He spoke also much of the difficulties of Spain as
to money matters, saying that their treasures in
America could at present be of no use to them, as
they had given orders that none should be sent home
during the war, even if it continued these ten years ;
and this was done in order, by stopping the usual
current of specie into Europe, to embarrass the measures which Great Britain must take to obtain her
necessary supplies. . . .
On the 13th of September, M. Gardoqui delivered
me the following verbal message from Count de Florida Blanca : " That the exigencies of the State would
not permit his Majesty to provide for the payment of
more of the bills drawn upon me than had been
already accepted." I expressed my regret that
this had not been told me at first, and told him it
appeared a little extraordinary that the Minister
should employ himself and me three months in making and answering propositions relative to a loan,
which it was not in his power to make. . . .
As the Count's message was a verbal one, and
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000429 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 398 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. the proposal of a treaty. We agreed perfectly well that mutual interest should be the basis of it, and I added, that the good opinion entertained of the King and nation by America was also a pleasing circumstance. He said, however that might be, America did not seem inclined to gratify Spain in the only point in which she was deeply interested. Here followed much common-place reasoning about the navigation of the Mississippi, of which your Excellency has heretofore heard too much to require a repetition. He spoke also much of the difficulties of Spain as to money matters, saying that their treasures in America could at present be of no use to them, as they had given orders that none should be sent home during the war, even if it continued these ten years ; and this was done in order, by stopping the usual current of specie into Europe, to embarrass the measures which Great Britain must take to obtain her necessary supplies. . . . On the 13th of September, M. Gardoqui delivered me the following verbal message from Count de Florida Blanca : " That the exigencies of the State would not permit his Majesty to provide for the payment of more of the bills drawn upon me than had been already accepted." I expressed my regret that this had not been told me at first, and told him it appeared a little extraordinary that the Minister should employ himself and me three months in making and answering propositions relative to a loan, which it was not in his power to make. . . . As the Count's message was a verbal one, and |
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