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EXTRACT FROM JAY'S DIARY.
EXTRACT FROM JAY'S DIARY.1
22d December, 1782.—Between 7 and 8 o'clock
this morning I visited Mr. Oswald. After some general conversation he took occasion to say that Lord
Mount Stuart, the son of Lord Bute, had dined with
him to-day, and that he had also seen his brother
Col. Stuart, who had served the whole war in America.
He spoke of the Colonel's aversion to the American
war, and the account he gave of the want of discipline and the disorder which prevailed in the British
army there. He passed several encomiums on the
Colonel's character ; sometimes of the father and then
of the son's, observing how unlike they were to what
the father was supposed to be; though for his part
he believed that more sins were laid on his back than
he had ever committed. He said that Lord Mount
Stuart execrated the American war, and had shown
him to-day several letters written by him at Turin
(where he was Ambassador) to Lord Hillsborough on
that subject. Mr. Oswald asked me if I remembered
what he had told me of Mr. Pultney's information
about the propositions of Count Vergennes, to divide
America with Britain. I told him I did. " Well,"
says he, " the same kind of proposition was made to
Lord Mount Stuart. His lordship brought with him
here to dinner his letter-book, which he did not choose
to leave with his charge d'affaires, and in which he
showed me his letters written with his own hand, (for
he would not confide it to his secretary) to Lord
Hillsborough; and the first letter was dated in the
1 See Extracts under date June 23 and October 21, 1782.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000044 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | EXTRACT FROM JAY'S DIARY. EXTRACT FROM JAY'S DIARY.1 22d December, 1782.—Between 7 and 8 o'clock this morning I visited Mr. Oswald. After some general conversation he took occasion to say that Lord Mount Stuart, the son of Lord Bute, had dined with him to-day, and that he had also seen his brother Col. Stuart, who had served the whole war in America. He spoke of the Colonel's aversion to the American war, and the account he gave of the want of discipline and the disorder which prevailed in the British army there. He passed several encomiums on the Colonel's character ; sometimes of the father and then of the son's, observing how unlike they were to what the father was supposed to be; though for his part he believed that more sins were laid on his back than he had ever committed. He said that Lord Mount Stuart execrated the American war, and had shown him to-day several letters written by him at Turin (where he was Ambassador) to Lord Hillsborough on that subject. Mr. Oswald asked me if I remembered what he had told me of Mr. Pultney's information about the propositions of Count Vergennes, to divide America with Britain. I told him I did. " Well," says he, " the same kind of proposition was made to Lord Mount Stuart. His lordship brought with him here to dinner his letter-book, which he did not choose to leave with his charge d'affaires, and in which he showed me his letters written with his own hand, (for he would not confide it to his secretary) to Lord Hillsborough; and the first letter was dated in the 1 See Extracts under date June 23 and October 21, 1782. |
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