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92 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
Throughout the whole of this conversation, the
Count appeared much less cordial than in the preceding one; he seemed to want self-possession, and to
that cause I ascribe his incautiously mentioning the
general peace as the most proper season for completing our political connections. I had, nevertheless,
no reason to suspect that this change in his behaviour
arose from any cause more important than those variations in temper and feelings which they who are unaccustomed to govern themselves often experience
from changes in the weather, in their health, from
fatigue of business, or other such like accidental
causes.
As I had not as yet received any letter from the
President, either by the Virginia or the vessel lately
arrived at L'Orient, nor by Colonel Laurens, who, I
was informed, had brought letters for me, I concluded
it would be most prudent to wait ten days, or a fortnight, before I proceeded to act on the copy of my
instruction received from Mr. Lovell, expecting that
such other letters as might then have arrived in
France or Spain for me would reach me in the course
of that interval, if at all. And I determined, in case
I should receive none, to proceed, without further loss
of time, to make a formal overture to the Minister
for a treaty on the ground of this instruction. It
happened, however, that the Minister was so occupied
during the remaining time that the Court stayed at
Aranjues, by the expedition preparing to sail from
Cadiz, under the Duke of Crillon, and other matters,
that it was impossible to engage a moment of his
| 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 | 00000113 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 92 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. Throughout the whole of this conversation, the Count appeared much less cordial than in the preceding one; he seemed to want self-possession, and to that cause I ascribe his incautiously mentioning the general peace as the most proper season for completing our political connections. I had, nevertheless, no reason to suspect that this change in his behaviour arose from any cause more important than those variations in temper and feelings which they who are unaccustomed to govern themselves often experience from changes in the weather, in their health, from fatigue of business, or other such like accidental causes. As I had not as yet received any letter from the President, either by the Virginia or the vessel lately arrived at L'Orient, nor by Colonel Laurens, who, I was informed, had brought letters for me, I concluded it would be most prudent to wait ten days, or a fortnight, before I proceeded to act on the copy of my instruction received from Mr. Lovell, expecting that such other letters as might then have arrived in France or Spain for me would reach me in the course of that interval, if at all. And I determined, in case I should receive none, to proceed, without further loss of time, to make a formal overture to the Minister for a treaty on the ground of this instruction. It happened, however, that the Minister was so occupied during the remaining time that the Court stayed at Aranjues, by the expedition preparing to sail from Cadiz, under the Duke of Crillon, and other matters, that it was impossible to engage a moment of his |
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