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JAY TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. 21
Be pleased to present Mrs. Jay's and my compliments to Mrs. Thompson, and believe me to be with
sincere regard and esteem,
Your most obedient servant,
John Jay.
JAY TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.1
CT„ . Madrid, April 25, 1781.
I have had the honour of receiving your Excellency's
letters of the 6th and 17th of October last, with the
enclosures. They arrived the 30th day of January
last. There is more than reason to suspect that the
French Court were apprised of their contents before
they arrived, and to believe that the construction of
the treaty, by which the navigation of the Mississippi
is supposed to be comprehended in the guarantee,
does not correspond with their ideas on that subject.
This Court continues pertinaciously to insist on our
ceding that navigation, nor will they, as yet, listen to
any middle line. Whether this be their real motive
for declining a treaty with us at present, or whether
the bills drawn upon me have inspired an expectation
of profiting by our necessities, or whether they flatter
themselves with a future majority of Congress on that
point, or whether they choose, by continuing free
from engagements with us, to be better enabled to
improve to their advantage the casualties of the war, are
questions which still remain undecided. Indeed, the
movements of this Court in general, when compared
1 This letter is in effect Jay's third report to Congress of his progress at the
Spanish court. See notes to letters of May nth and November 6, 1780.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 2 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000042 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. 21 Be pleased to present Mrs. Jay's and my compliments to Mrs. Thompson, and believe me to be with sincere regard and esteem, Your most obedient servant, John Jay. JAY TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.1 CT„ . Madrid, April 25, 1781. I have had the honour of receiving your Excellency's letters of the 6th and 17th of October last, with the enclosures. They arrived the 30th day of January last. There is more than reason to suspect that the French Court were apprised of their contents before they arrived, and to believe that the construction of the treaty, by which the navigation of the Mississippi is supposed to be comprehended in the guarantee, does not correspond with their ideas on that subject. This Court continues pertinaciously to insist on our ceding that navigation, nor will they, as yet, listen to any middle line. Whether this be their real motive for declining a treaty with us at present, or whether the bills drawn upon me have inspired an expectation of profiting by our necessities, or whether they flatter themselves with a future majority of Congress on that point, or whether they choose, by continuing free from engagements with us, to be better enabled to improve to their advantage the casualties of the war, are questions which still remain undecided. Indeed, the movements of this Court in general, when compared 1 This letter is in effect Jay's third report to Congress of his progress at the Spanish court. See notes to letters of May nth and November 6, 1780. |
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