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JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. 285
JAY TO M. CABARRUS.
Madrid, April 2, 1782.
Sir :
I have received the letter you did me the honour
to write on the 29th of March last.
As soon as the examination of your accounts shall
be completed, I shall be ready to pay the balance that
may be due to you, either here or by bills on Paris.
I should also be no less ready to subscribe a general
approbation of your conduct, if the latter part of it
had been equally fair and friendly with the first.
Although it always affords me pleasure to recollect
and acknowledge acts of friendship, yet, sir, I can
consider only one of the five instances you enumerate
as entitled to that appellation. I shall review them
in their order. You remind me :
1 st. That you risked the making me considerable
advances, at a time when I could only give you hopes,
and not formal assurances, of repayment.
I acknowledge freely and with gratitude that (exclusive of the commissions due to you for paying out
the various sums I had placed in your hands) you did
advance me between twenty and thirty thousand dollars ; but as the United States of America were bound
to repay it, and I had reason to expect supplies to a
far greater amount, I conceived, and the event has
shown, that you did not run any great risk, although
the uncertainty of the time when these supplies would
be afforded, prevented my giving you positive and
formal assurances of the time and manner of repayment.
| 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 | 00000306 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. 285 JAY TO M. CABARRUS. Madrid, April 2, 1782. Sir : I have received the letter you did me the honour to write on the 29th of March last. As soon as the examination of your accounts shall be completed, I shall be ready to pay the balance that may be due to you, either here or by bills on Paris. I should also be no less ready to subscribe a general approbation of your conduct, if the latter part of it had been equally fair and friendly with the first. Although it always affords me pleasure to recollect and acknowledge acts of friendship, yet, sir, I can consider only one of the five instances you enumerate as entitled to that appellation. I shall review them in their order. You remind me : 1 st. That you risked the making me considerable advances, at a time when I could only give you hopes, and not formal assurances, of repayment. I acknowledge freely and with gratitude that (exclusive of the commissions due to you for paying out the various sums I had placed in your hands) you did advance me between twenty and thirty thousand dollars ; but as the United States of America were bound to repay it, and I had reason to expect supplies to a far greater amount, I conceived, and the event has shown, that you did not run any great risk, although the uncertainty of the time when these supplies would be afforded, prevented my giving you positive and formal assurances of the time and manner of repayment. |
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