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JAY TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. 83
to hear that M. Gardoqui was so near his departure ;
that I considered myself much honoured by his requesting my remarks relative to it, and that I was sure
Congress would draw agreeable conclusions from his
mission ; that I should write by him to Congress,
and as they would expect to learn from me the precise
character in which they were to receive and consider
him, it became necessary that his Excellency should
favour me with that information, as well to enable me
to transmit the proper advices to Congress, as to
make the remarks which he had done me the honour
to request; that I conceived this to be the more indispensable, because if M. Gardoqui should carry no
public testimonials from this Court to Congress he
could only be considered by them as a private gentleman, and all his intercourse with Congress would of
consequence be subjected to all the inconveniences
resulting from it.
This topic carried the conversation off the delicate
ground to which the Count had led it. He admitted
the propriety of my being exactly apprised of the nature of M. Gardoqui's commission, said that as yet it
was not decided, and therefore for the present could
only give me his opinion of what it would probably be.
He observed that circumstances did not render it
proper that he should go as Minister, though perhaps
it might be proper to give him contingent powers ;
that it was the common practice where Courts sent
to each other persons charged with their affairs, in
a character below that of Minister, to give no other
| 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 | 00000104 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. 83 to hear that M. Gardoqui was so near his departure ; that I considered myself much honoured by his requesting my remarks relative to it, and that I was sure Congress would draw agreeable conclusions from his mission ; that I should write by him to Congress, and as they would expect to learn from me the precise character in which they were to receive and consider him, it became necessary that his Excellency should favour me with that information, as well to enable me to transmit the proper advices to Congress, as to make the remarks which he had done me the honour to request; that I conceived this to be the more indispensable, because if M. Gardoqui should carry no public testimonials from this Court to Congress he could only be considered by them as a private gentleman, and all his intercourse with Congress would of consequence be subjected to all the inconveniences resulting from it. This topic carried the conversation off the delicate ground to which the Count had led it. He admitted the propriety of my being exactly apprised of the nature of M. Gardoqui's commission, said that as yet it was not decided, and therefore for the present could only give me his opinion of what it would probably be. He observed that circumstances did not render it proper that he should go as Minister, though perhaps it might be proper to give him contingent powers ; that it was the common practice where Courts sent to each other persons charged with their affairs, in a character below that of Minister, to give no other |
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