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24o CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
time without any information of it. It shows that the
King is ready to do what may depend upon him, but
that his Ministers find it convenient to interpose
delays without necessity, and without even the appearance of it.
After the King's return from Aranjues, I took an
opportunity of asking M. Del Campo when I might
promise myself the pleasure of commencing our conferences. He replied that his health was not as yet
sufficiently re-established to permit him to do business. The fact, however, was otherwise.
On the 27th of December, I again waited on him
for the same purpose. He told me it was very uncertain when our conferences could commence, and
that he must first converse with the Count on the subject. I asked him whether he had not received his
instructions. He answered that he had not, for that
they were not as yet completed, nor indeed, as he
believed, as yet begun.
In this state things remained during the whole time
the Court continued at Madrid. Above a month since
the date of my letter to Dr. Franklin about our bills
had elapsed without an answer, nor had any prospect
of obtaining aids here opened. I therefore wrote him
the following letter:
JAY TO DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
My DEAR SlR : Madrid, December 31, 1781.
I learn from the Marquis d'Aranda, that my letter
of the 21st ultimo has reached you. The want of a
good opportunity has for some time past prevented
| 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 | 00000261 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 24o CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. time without any information of it. It shows that the King is ready to do what may depend upon him, but that his Ministers find it convenient to interpose delays without necessity, and without even the appearance of it. After the King's return from Aranjues, I took an opportunity of asking M. Del Campo when I might promise myself the pleasure of commencing our conferences. He replied that his health was not as yet sufficiently re-established to permit him to do business. The fact, however, was otherwise. On the 27th of December, I again waited on him for the same purpose. He told me it was very uncertain when our conferences could commence, and that he must first converse with the Count on the subject. I asked him whether he had not received his instructions. He answered that he had not, for that they were not as yet completed, nor indeed, as he believed, as yet begun. In this state things remained during the whole time the Court continued at Madrid. Above a month since the date of my letter to Dr. Franklin about our bills had elapsed without an answer, nor had any prospect of obtaining aids here opened. I therefore wrote him the following letter: JAY TO DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. My DEAR SlR : Madrid, December 31, 1781. I learn from the Marquis d'Aranda, that my letter of the 21st ultimo has reached you. The want of a good opportunity has for some time past prevented |
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