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JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. 417
Among other objections unanimously made by Congress, on the 22d of April, 1778, to certain bills of
the British Parliament, then about to be passed into
laws to enable the King of Great Britain to appoint
Commissioners to treat, etc., is the following, viz. :
" Because the said bill purports that the Commissioners therein mentioned may treat with private
individuals, a measure highly derogatory to national
honor."
Mr. Oswald's commission contains a similar clause,
and, consequently, is liable to the same objections.
The Congress did also, on the same day, unanimously declare, "that these United States cannot
with propriety hold any conference or treaty with
any Commissioners on the part of Great Britain, unless
they shall, as a preliminary thereto, either withdraw
their fleets and armies, or else in positive and express
terms acknowledge the independence pf the said States."
Neither of these alternatives has as yet been complied with.
On the 6th of June, 1778, the Congress ordered their
President to give an answer in the following words
to the Commissioners appointed under the British
acts of Parliament before mentioned viz.:
" My Lord,
" I have had the honour to lay your Lordship's letter of May the 27th, with the acts of the British Parliament enclosed, before Congress, and I am instructed
to acquaint your Lordship, that they have already
expressed their sentiments upon bills not essentially
different from those acts, in a publication of the 22d
of April last. vol 11-27
| 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 | 00000438 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. 417 Among other objections unanimously made by Congress, on the 22d of April, 1778, to certain bills of the British Parliament, then about to be passed into laws to enable the King of Great Britain to appoint Commissioners to treat, etc., is the following, viz. : " Because the said bill purports that the Commissioners therein mentioned may treat with private individuals, a measure highly derogatory to national honor." Mr. Oswald's commission contains a similar clause, and, consequently, is liable to the same objections. The Congress did also, on the same day, unanimously declare, "that these United States cannot with propriety hold any conference or treaty with any Commissioners on the part of Great Britain, unless they shall, as a preliminary thereto, either withdraw their fleets and armies, or else in positive and express terms acknowledge the independence pf the said States." Neither of these alternatives has as yet been complied with. On the 6th of June, 1778, the Congress ordered their President to give an answer in the following words to the Commissioners appointed under the British acts of Parliament before mentioned viz.: " My Lord, " I have had the honour to lay your Lordship's letter of May the 27th, with the acts of the British Parliament enclosed, before Congress, and I am instructed to acquaint your Lordship, that they have already expressed their sentiments upon bills not essentially different from those acts, in a publication of the 22d of April last. vol 11-27 |
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