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ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON TO JAY. 173
abilities and spirit of the Marquis de Bouill6; and his
disinterested generosity is finely contrasted with the sordid
avarice of the British commanders.
Order and economy have taken place in our finances.
The troops are regularly clothed and fed at West Point,
and most of the other posts, at the moderate rate of nine-
pence a ration when issued, so that the innumerable band
of purchasing and issuing commissaries is discharged. The
hospitals are well supplied in the same way, and small
advances of pay are made to the officers and men. Upon
the whole, they were never in so comfortable a situation as
they are at present. Our civil list formed upon plans of
the strictest economy, after having been many years in
arrear, is now regularly paid off; and the departments, in
consequence of it, filled with men of integrity and abilities.
Embargoes and other restrictions being removed, our commerce begins to revive, and with it the spirit of industry
and enterprise; and what will astonish you still more is,
that public credit has again reared its head. Our bank
paper is in equal estimation with specie. Nothing can be
more agreeable than to see the satisfaction with which people bring their money to the bank, and take out paper ; or
the joy mixed with surprise with which some, who have
hesitatingly taken bank bills for the first time, see that they
can turn them into specie at their option.
Whether Spain wishes for peace or war, it is certainly
her interest to push the enemy where they are most vulnerable, and where she can do it with the smallest expense
to herself, and the greatest to her enemy. Every additional man she enables us to maintain here, forces Britain
to lay out four times as much in procuring, transporting,
and feeding another to oppose him. It has been acknowledged in the British House of Commons, that every man
in America costs the nation annually one hundred pounds
sterling. Though this may appear exorbitant, yet whoever
| 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 | 00000194 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON TO JAY. 173 abilities and spirit of the Marquis de Bouill6; and his disinterested generosity is finely contrasted with the sordid avarice of the British commanders. Order and economy have taken place in our finances. The troops are regularly clothed and fed at West Point, and most of the other posts, at the moderate rate of nine- pence a ration when issued, so that the innumerable band of purchasing and issuing commissaries is discharged. The hospitals are well supplied in the same way, and small advances of pay are made to the officers and men. Upon the whole, they were never in so comfortable a situation as they are at present. Our civil list formed upon plans of the strictest economy, after having been many years in arrear, is now regularly paid off; and the departments, in consequence of it, filled with men of integrity and abilities. Embargoes and other restrictions being removed, our commerce begins to revive, and with it the spirit of industry and enterprise; and what will astonish you still more is, that public credit has again reared its head. Our bank paper is in equal estimation with specie. Nothing can be more agreeable than to see the satisfaction with which people bring their money to the bank, and take out paper ; or the joy mixed with surprise with which some, who have hesitatingly taken bank bills for the first time, see that they can turn them into specie at their option. Whether Spain wishes for peace or war, it is certainly her interest to push the enemy where they are most vulnerable, and where she can do it with the smallest expense to herself, and the greatest to her enemy. Every additional man she enables us to maintain here, forces Britain to lay out four times as much in procuring, transporting, and feeding another to oppose him. It has been acknowledged in the British House of Commons, that every man in America costs the nation annually one hundred pounds sterling. Though this may appear exorbitant, yet whoever |
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