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78 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
This last instance appeared to me to be really cruel;
for if he had intended to withhold the necessary supplies, he ought to have given me notice of it, and not
by keeping up my expectations to within a few days
before the holders of the bills were to call upon me
for their money (and the bills of April amounted to
eighty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars) reduce
me to such imminent danger of being obliged to protest them. Speaking on this subject with the French
Ambassador, he intimated that the Court expected I
should have made them some further overtures respecting the Mississippi. I told him I had no authority to make any others than what I had already made.
He replied that the Minister believed I had. At that
time I had received no letters, public or private, which
gave me the least reason to suspect that Congress had
passed the resolution of the 15th of February last, and
it was not before the 18th of May that a letter I then
received from Mr. Lovell enabled me to understand
the reason of the Minister's belief. I then recalled
to mind his frequent assurances of frankness, and of
his speaking without reserve, often adding that he
was well informed of our affairs, and had minute
information of what was passing at Philadelphia.
There can be no doubt but that some copies of the
President's letters to me have fallen into his hands,
and that he supposed I had received others, though
this was not in fact the case. Hence it appears that
the double miscarriage, if I may so call it, of these
letters had an unfavourable influence on our hopes of
pecuniary aids, for it is highly probable that in this
| 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 | 00000099 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 78 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. This last instance appeared to me to be really cruel; for if he had intended to withhold the necessary supplies, he ought to have given me notice of it, and not by keeping up my expectations to within a few days before the holders of the bills were to call upon me for their money (and the bills of April amounted to eighty-nine thousand and eighty-three dollars) reduce me to such imminent danger of being obliged to protest them. Speaking on this subject with the French Ambassador, he intimated that the Court expected I should have made them some further overtures respecting the Mississippi. I told him I had no authority to make any others than what I had already made. He replied that the Minister believed I had. At that time I had received no letters, public or private, which gave me the least reason to suspect that Congress had passed the resolution of the 15th of February last, and it was not before the 18th of May that a letter I then received from Mr. Lovell enabled me to understand the reason of the Minister's belief. I then recalled to mind his frequent assurances of frankness, and of his speaking without reserve, often adding that he was well informed of our affairs, and had minute information of what was passing at Philadelphia. There can be no doubt but that some copies of the President's letters to me have fallen into his hands, and that he supposed I had received others, though this was not in fact the case. Hence it appears that the double miscarriage, if I may so call it, of these letters had an unfavourable influence on our hopes of pecuniary aids, for it is highly probable that in this |
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