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JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. 269
met with, and though the Minister's excuses for them
were frivolous and merely ostensible, yet it could
have answered no good purpose to have declared that
opinion of them, especially at so delicate a period of
our affairs.
As many bills to a considerable amount would be
payable on the 14th of March, I thought it high time
that the Minister should declare his intentions at least
a day or two before, and therefore I desired M. Cabarrus to wait upon the Minister and confer with him
on the subject. M. Cabarrus accordingly went to
the Pardo on the evening of the nth of March. He
saw the Minister and mentioned the purpose of his
visit. The Minister said I must have misunderstood
him ; that it was not until the last extremity that I
was to send him, and he desired M. Cabarrus to
inform him when that should arrive. M. Cabarrus
repeated to me his former offers, and assured me that
nothing on his part should be wanting.
The Madrid Gazette of the 12th of March contained a paragraph, of which you ought not to be
ignorant. I shall therefore copy it verbatim, and add
a translation as literal as I can make it:
" By a letter from the Commandant General of the army of
operations at the Havanna, and Governor of Louisiana, his
Majesty has advices, that a detachment of sixty-five militiamen
and sixty Indians of the nations Otaguos, Sotu, and Putuami,
under the command of Don Eugenio Purre, a captain of militia,
accompanied by Don Carlos Tayon, a sub-lieutenant of militia,
by Don Luis Chevalier, a man well versed in the language of the
Indians, and by their great chiefs Eleturno and Naquigen, who
marched the 2d of January, 1781, from the town of St. Luis 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 | 00000290 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. 269 met with, and though the Minister's excuses for them were frivolous and merely ostensible, yet it could have answered no good purpose to have declared that opinion of them, especially at so delicate a period of our affairs. As many bills to a considerable amount would be payable on the 14th of March, I thought it high time that the Minister should declare his intentions at least a day or two before, and therefore I desired M. Cabarrus to wait upon the Minister and confer with him on the subject. M. Cabarrus accordingly went to the Pardo on the evening of the nth of March. He saw the Minister and mentioned the purpose of his visit. The Minister said I must have misunderstood him ; that it was not until the last extremity that I was to send him, and he desired M. Cabarrus to inform him when that should arrive. M. Cabarrus repeated to me his former offers, and assured me that nothing on his part should be wanting. The Madrid Gazette of the 12th of March contained a paragraph, of which you ought not to be ignorant. I shall therefore copy it verbatim, and add a translation as literal as I can make it: " By a letter from the Commandant General of the army of operations at the Havanna, and Governor of Louisiana, his Majesty has advices, that a detachment of sixty-five militiamen and sixty Indians of the nations Otaguos, Sotu, and Putuami, under the command of Don Eugenio Purre, a captain of militia, accompanied by Don Carlos Tayon, a sub-lieutenant of militia, by Don Luis Chevalier, a man well versed in the language of the Indians, and by their great chiefs Eleturno and Naquigen, who marched the 2d of January, 1781, from the town of St. Luis of |
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