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218 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS,
munication of the facts mentioned in it, especially as
it affords me an opportunity of manifesting to his
Majesty and to Congress my attention to his rights
and to their orders.
I perfectly agree in sentiment with your Excellency respecting the impropriety of detaining on
board the American frigate at Corunna, the two men
claimed by the commandant there, as deserters from
one of his Majesty's regiments.
Your Excellency's remarks on this subject are no
less delicate than just; and your assurance that these
men shall not be punished renders a compliance with
the requisition to deliver them up no less consistent
with humanity than with justice.
It gives me pleasure to confess, that the hospitable
reception given to American vessels in the ports of
Spain gives his Majesty a double right to expect, that
their conduct should at least be inoffensive. In the,
present case (as stated in your Excellency's letter),
I am fully convinced of the justice of this demand,
that I should not hesitate to comply with it, even
though made on a similar occasion by the Court of
Portugal, from whose affected neutrality we suffer
more evils than we should experience from any open
hospitality she is capable of executing.
Agreeably to your Excellency's desire, I have
written a letter (of which the enclosed is a copy) to
the commanding officer of the frigate in question;
and as the manner in which your Excellency's letter
to me treats this subject cannot fail making agreeable
impressions on Americans, I shall take the liberty of
| 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 | 00000239 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 218 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS, munication of the facts mentioned in it, especially as it affords me an opportunity of manifesting to his Majesty and to Congress my attention to his rights and to their orders. I perfectly agree in sentiment with your Excellency respecting the impropriety of detaining on board the American frigate at Corunna, the two men claimed by the commandant there, as deserters from one of his Majesty's regiments. Your Excellency's remarks on this subject are no less delicate than just; and your assurance that these men shall not be punished renders a compliance with the requisition to deliver them up no less consistent with humanity than with justice. It gives me pleasure to confess, that the hospitable reception given to American vessels in the ports of Spain gives his Majesty a double right to expect, that their conduct should at least be inoffensive. In the, present case (as stated in your Excellency's letter), I am fully convinced of the justice of this demand, that I should not hesitate to comply with it, even though made on a similar occasion by the Court of Portugal, from whose affected neutrality we suffer more evils than we should experience from any open hospitality she is capable of executing. Agreeably to your Excellency's desire, I have written a letter (of which the enclosed is a copy) to the commanding officer of the frigate in question; and as the manner in which your Excellency's letter to me treats this subject cannot fail making agreeable impressions on Americans, I shall take the liberty of |
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