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37o CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
us shall be made certainly attainable through the
concord, or forever lost and irrecoverable through
the disagreement, of the nation."
To make comments on these extracts would be to
waste time and paper. On reading them I became
persuaded that Mr. Paradise and American liberty
were mere pretences to cover a more important
errand to America, and I was surprised that Mr.
Jones' vanity should so far get the better of his
prudence as to put such pamphlets into my hands
at such a time.
I pointed out these extracts to Dr. Franklin; but
they did not strike him so forcibly as they had done
me. I mentioned my apprehensions also to the Marquis de Lafayette, and I declined giving any letters
either to Mr. Paradise or to Mr. Jones.
I am the more particular on this subject, in order
that you may the better understand the meaning of
a paragraph in my letter to you of the 28th of June
last, where I inform you " that, if one may judge
from appearances, the Ministry are very desirous of
getting some of their emissaries into our country,
either in an avowed or in a private character; and,
all things considered, I should think it more safe not
to admit any Englishman in either character within
our lines at this very critical juncture."
Mr. Jones and Mr. Paradise went from hence to
Nantes in order to embark there for America. Some
weeks afterwards I met Mr. Paradise at Passy. He
told me Mr. Jones and himself had parted at Nantes,
and that the latter had returned directly to England.
| 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 | 00000391 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 37o CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. us shall be made certainly attainable through the concord, or forever lost and irrecoverable through the disagreement, of the nation." To make comments on these extracts would be to waste time and paper. On reading them I became persuaded that Mr. Paradise and American liberty were mere pretences to cover a more important errand to America, and I was surprised that Mr. Jones' vanity should so far get the better of his prudence as to put such pamphlets into my hands at such a time. I pointed out these extracts to Dr. Franklin; but they did not strike him so forcibly as they had done me. I mentioned my apprehensions also to the Marquis de Lafayette, and I declined giving any letters either to Mr. Paradise or to Mr. Jones. I am the more particular on this subject, in order that you may the better understand the meaning of a paragraph in my letter to you of the 28th of June last, where I inform you " that, if one may judge from appearances, the Ministry are very desirous of getting some of their emissaries into our country, either in an avowed or in a private character; and, all things considered, I should think it more safe not to admit any Englishman in either character within our lines at this very critical juncture." Mr. Jones and Mr. Paradise went from hence to Nantes in order to embark there for America. Some weeks afterwards I met Mr. Paradise at Passy. He told me Mr. Jones and himself had parted at Nantes, and that the latter had returned directly to England. |
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