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206 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
tage of friendship and intercourse with a man valuable on
every account. You, I trust, saw enough of me to know
that these expressions are not, on my part, compliments of
course, but that they proceed from sentiments of real esteem
and regard.
I need not tell you with how much pleasure, on every
account, I have learned that the public in the United States
are recovering from the delusion into which they had been
led, and that justice is now done by the country at large, as
it was before by well informed and well principled men, to
the uprightness and ability of your conduct. I, on my part,
should have thought, that I very ill consulted the interests
of my own country, if I had been desirous of terminating
the points in discussion between us, on any other footing
than that of mutual justice and reciprocal advantage; nor
do I conceive that any just objection can be stated to the
great work which we jointly accomplished, except on the
part of those who believe the interest of Great Britain and
the United States to be in contradiction with each other, or
who wish to make them so.
It would be a great gratification to me to learn occasionally that you are well, and that you retain a friendly recollection of one who is, with the greatest sincerity,
Most truly and faithfully,
Your obedient humble servant,
_______ Grenville.
president washington to jay.
Philadelphia, 31st March, 1796.
Accept, my dear sir, my thanks for your note of the 25th
inst., enclosing a copy of Mr. Bayard's letter to you. The
purport of it is pleasing; but the conduct of the British
armed vessels in the West Indies is intolerable beyond all
forbearance.
My answer, given yesterday to the House of Representatives' request for papers, will, I expect, set a host of scrib-
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000233 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 206 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. tage of friendship and intercourse with a man valuable on every account. You, I trust, saw enough of me to know that these expressions are not, on my part, compliments of course, but that they proceed from sentiments of real esteem and regard. I need not tell you with how much pleasure, on every account, I have learned that the public in the United States are recovering from the delusion into which they had been led, and that justice is now done by the country at large, as it was before by well informed and well principled men, to the uprightness and ability of your conduct. I, on my part, should have thought, that I very ill consulted the interests of my own country, if I had been desirous of terminating the points in discussion between us, on any other footing than that of mutual justice and reciprocal advantage; nor do I conceive that any just objection can be stated to the great work which we jointly accomplished, except on the part of those who believe the interest of Great Britain and the United States to be in contradiction with each other, or who wish to make them so. It would be a great gratification to me to learn occasionally that you are well, and that you retain a friendly recollection of one who is, with the greatest sincerity, Most truly and faithfully, Your obedient humble servant, _______ Grenville. president washington to jay. Philadelphia, 31st March, 1796. Accept, my dear sir, my thanks for your note of the 25th inst., enclosing a copy of Mr. Bayard's letter to you. The purport of it is pleasing; but the conduct of the British armed vessels in the West Indies is intolerable beyond all forbearance. My answer, given yesterday to the House of Representatives' request for papers, will, I expect, set a host of scrib- |
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