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The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution.Vol. I.by Various.VOL. I.THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SILAS DEANE, COMMISSIONER FROM THE UNITED STATES TO THE COURT OF FRANCE.Silas Deane was born in the town of Groton, Connecticut, and graduated at Yale
- 180 "Aranjuez, the 18th of April, 1780.DE FLORIDA BLANCA."There are two articles worth translating from the foreign gazettes, if it were only as specimens of the art, which is employed to keep the enemy in uncertainty about the designs of this Court
- 179 Vengeance, Com. Hotham, Capt. Holloway, 74 617 Medway, Capt. Affleck, 60 420 Montague, Houlton, 74 600 Conqueror, R. A. Rowley, Watson, 74 617 Intrepid, St John, 64 500 Magnificent, Elphinstone, 74 600 Andromeda frigate. Centurion to a.s.sist the rear in
- 178 TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Paris, May 26th, 1780.Sir, At a numerous a.s.sembly of gentlemen of the law in Dublin, held the 30th of April, Captain Henry Hewart in the chair, after having collected the votes, Henry Grattan was unanimously admitted an hono
- 177 Mr Eden followed Lord Nugent in the debate, and indulged himself in sporting with the flowers of rhetoric, and pleasantries of wit, without many solid observations that deserve notice. It may not be improper to remark two or three things however. "In
- 176 TO M. GENET, AT VERSAILLES.Paris, May 17th, 1780.Sir, General Conway, in his speech in the House of Commons, on the 6th of May, affirms, that the alliance between France and the United States is not natural. Whether it is or not, is no doubt a great quest
- 175 TO JOHN JAY.Paris, May 13th, 1780.Dear Sir, I had two days ago the pleasure of yours of the 26th of April, and am very happy to have at last received from your hand an account of your safe arrival in Madrid.The Count de Florida Blanca is allowed to be a m
- 174 The French armament, which sailed from Brest the 2d of May, under the command of M. de Rochambeau, of the troops, and M. de Ternay, of the fleet, and the armament from Cadiz, of twelve s.h.i.+ps of the line, besides frigates and other armed vessels, with
- 173 JOHN ADAMS._P. S._ There is an article in the Amsterdam Gazette of the 2d of May, taken from the Hague of the 30th of April, that "Mr Faucet, General in the service of the King of England, has set off from his residence, and we learn from Dort, that
- 172 _Hague, 3d of May._ "There has been sent to the a.s.sembly of their High Mightinesses, a resolution of the Province of Gueldres, conforming wholly to that taken by the Province of Holland, touching the memorial of the Prince Gallitzin, and which auth
- 171 "The King, being informed of the dispositions made by the States-General of the United Provinces for complying with the reciprocity required by his regulation of the 26th of July, 1778, concerning the navigation of neutral vessels, and his Majesty, w
- 170 "n.o.ble and Mighty Lords, "In compliance with the resolution of your n.o.ble Mightinesses of the 31st of March last, in consequence of which was presented into the hands of the Committee of your n.o.ble Mightinesses, the Report presented the 17
- 169 The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution.Vol. V.by Various.THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN ADAMS.CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED.TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Paris, April 17th, 1780.Sir, Late letters from Dantzic imply, that commerce was become very l
- 168 JOHN ADAMS. TO M. DE SARTINE. Paris, April 16th, 1780. Sir, I have received the two letters, which your Excellency did me the honor to write to me, on the 5th and on the 12th of this month. I do not mean to give your Excellency the trouble of answering th
- 167 3dly. To the proposition for the members of the House of Commons to be elected, to serve in Parliament for a term not exceeding three years.But the most important resolution of all was also unanimous, "That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the
- 166 Sir, The _Memoire_ of the Prince Gallitzen, Envoy Extraordinary from the Empress of all the Russias to the States-General, presented the third of this month, is of too much importance to the United States of America, and their allies, to be omitted to be
- 165 TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN EMBa.s.sY AT MADRID.Paris, April 8th, 1780.Sir, I have this moment the honor of your letter from Madrid of the 29th of February, as I suppose, although the month is not mentioned. I thank you, Sir, for comm
- 164 JOHN ADAMS.TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Paris, April 4th, 1780.Sir, There is an anecdote from Malaga, which ought to be mentioned to Congress, because, it cannot fail to have serious consequences.The Swedish frigate, the Illerim, of thirtyfour guns, comma
- 163 TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Paris, April 3d, 1780.Sir, The Prince of Orange, Stadtholder, is not only supposed to have ambitious views of allying his family to that of Great Britain, but is very much influenced by the Duke of Brunswick, who is a field ma
- 162 COUNT DE VERGENNES TO JOHN ADAMS.Translation.Versailles, March 30th, 1780.Sir, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write on the 21st instant. I remember very well to have said to you, that your presentation should be inserted in the
- 161 TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Paris, March 24th, 1780.Sir, Mr Burke's bill not being as yet public, we are not yet informed of the items of it. But as it already appears, that it strikes at the Department of Secretary of State for America, and at the
- 160 The other paragraph discovers the marks of more ingenuity and less truth. It is taken from the English papers, that Captain Jarvis, in the Foudroyant of eighty guns, who has been out upon a cruise, with a small division in the mouth of the Channel, has re
- 159 TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Paris, March 14th, 1780.Sir, By a letter from London of the 3d of this month, received since my former of this day's date, I learn that the friends of the Ministry were in hopes every hour to hear that Clinton, who embark
- 158 TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Paris, March 8th, 1780.Sir, I have the honor to enclose to Congress the gazettes of France, of the Hague, and Amsterdam, of the 1st, 3d, and 4th of this month. They contain all the news, which makes the subject of conversation
- 157 There is so great a curiosity through all Europe to see our new const.i.tutions, and those already published in the languages of Europe have done us so much honor, that I thought I should be excusable in making a direct request to Congress for their a.s.s
- 156 With regard to your instructions, Sir, I am satisfied that they have for their certain and invariable basis, the treaties subsisting between the King and the United States. M. Gerard has a.s.sured the King of it, in the most positive manner, and his Majes
- 155 Since my arrival in Europe, I have had the mortification to see in the public papers a series of little successes, which our enemies have had in the prosecution of the war. The first was a very exaggerated account in the English Court Gazette, of their su
- 154 I therefore beg the favor of you to inform me of the exact truth in all these matters, that I may take the earliest opportunity of transmitting the intelligence to Congress, where it is of importance it should be known.I was much mortified when I was at V
- 153 When his Majesty's intentions of granting me a pa.s.sage to America were communicated to me, I had little expectation of returning in the same frigate; but the Congress having honored me with a fresh mission to Europe, their Excellencies, the late an
- 152 Sir, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the 6th of October last.I was well persuaded, that M. de Chavagne[55] would endeavor to procure for you everything in his power to render your pa.s.sage agreeable. This was conf
- 151 Ferrol, December 8th, 1779.Sir, I have the honor to inform your Excellency, that, Congress having judged it proper to appoint me to a new mission in Europe, I embarked on the 13th of November, at the instance of the Chevalier de la Luzerne and M. Gerard,
- 150 Braintree, October 25th, 1779.My Dear Sir, Your favor of the 4th of this month gave me great pleasure, but I am afraid that you and some others of my friends felt more for me in the awkward situation you mention than I did for myself, though I cannot say
- 149 You will be pleased to make my most respectful compliments to the members of Congress, and believe me, with great esteem, &c.JOHN ADAMS.TO JAMES LOVELL.Braintree, October 17th, 1779.My Dear Sir, What shall I say to your favors of the 27th and 28th of Sept
- 148 The merit of the Chevalier de la Luzerne, who was Amba.s.sador in Bavaria during the transaction of this business, and that of M.Marbois, the Secretary to that emba.s.sy, in accomplis.h.i.+ng an affair of such importance, which was rendered peculiarly del
- 147 M. DE LAFAYETTE TO JOHN ADAMS.Translation.St Germain, April 9th, 1779.Dear Sir, I beg leave to apply to you, in an instance where I am much concerned.The case I shall lay before you, and recommend to your care. There is an officer in Paris, whom I wish to
- 146 [44] These letters relate to Silas Deane and Arthur Lee, and may be found in Arthur Lee's Correspondence, Vol. II, pp. 224, 227.TO THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE.Pa.s.sy, February 21st, 1779.My dear Marquis, The conversation with which you honored me last
- 145 Sir, We have received several letters from you, and several certificates from officers and others, respecting your behavior in general, as well as particularly relative to the charge of disobedience of orders, for which you have been confined. It would be
- 144 However, I am reckoning without my host, for by the bruits, which Mr Deane's letters have scattered, I may expect, that the first vessel will bring my recall or removal to some other Court. But wherever I am, my heart will ever be anxious for the goo
- 143 You will readily acknowledge the impropriety of my entering into the question concerning the duty of the Commissioners here, to have made the communications of the treaty, which you mention. But of this you may be a.s.sured, that I shall at all times hold
- 142 I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, &c.JOHN ADAMS.TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Pa.s.sy, September 7th, 1778.Sir, I have the honor to enclose to Congress all the newspapers I have by me, enough to show that we have nothing very important here
- 141 War is not declared, that is, no manifesto has been published, but each nation is daily manufacturing materials for the other's manifesto, by open hostilities. In short, Sir, the two nations have been at war ever since the recall of the Amba.s.sadors
- 140 _Resolved_, That each of the Ministers Plenipotentiary, be allowed at the rate of two thousand five hundred pounds sterling ($11,111) per annum; and each of their Secretaries at the rate of one thousand pounds sterling ($4,444) per annum, in full for thei
- 139 Dear Sir, With great pleasure to ourselves we discharge our duty, by enclosing to you your commission for representing these United States at the Court of France. We are by no means willing to admit a thought of your declining this important service, and
- 138 [34] This matter was not cleared up till 1794, when Gouverneur Morris was American Minister in Paris. By application to the government he procured a copy of the receipt of the person, who received the million of francs on the tenth of June, 1776. It prove
- 137 Sir, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write on the 28th of this month, touching the advance of a million, which you say was made by the Farmers-General to the United States of America, the 3d of June, 1777. I have no knowledge of
- 136 Translation.Versailles, May 22d, 1785.Sir, I have learnt with much concern of your retiring, and of your approaching departure for America. You cannot doubt but that the regrets, which you will leave, will be proportionate to the consideration you so just
- 135 B. F.TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.Pa.s.sy, February 8th, 1785.Sir, I received by the Marquis de Lafayette the two letters you did me the honor of writing to me the 11th and 14th of December, the one enclosing a letter from Congress to the King, the other
- 134 DE MERCY ARGENTEAU.COUNT DE VERGENNES TO B. FRANKLIN.Translation.Versailles, August 27th, 1784.Sir, You have communicated to me an extract from the instructions, which Congress addressed to you on the 11th of May last, which imports that the United States
- 133 They shall have also, and exclusively, the right to inventory, liquidate, and proceed to the sale of the moveable effects of the estates left by subjects of their nation who shall die within the extent of the consulate. They shall proceed therein with the
- 132 DAVID HARTLEY.TO DAVID HARTLEY.Pa.s.sy, June 2d, 1784.Sir, I have considered the observations you did me the honor of communicating to me, concerning certain inaccuracies of expression, and supposed defects of formality, in the instrument of ratification,
- 131 TO ROBERT MORRIS.Pa.s.sy, December 25th, 1783.Sir, The remissness of our people in paying taxes is highly blameable, the unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see in some resolutions of town meetings, a remonstrance against giving Congress a power
- 130 Sir, On the 15th of July last, I had the honor to acquaint your Excellency of my arrival in Europe, and that I was appointed by his Majesty, the Emperor of Morocco, bearer of the answer to the Congress, Sovereign of the Thirteen United States of North Ame
- 129 [29] Mr Morris was a Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs.DAVID HARTLEY TO B. FRANKLIN.Bath, September 24th, 1783.My Dear Friend, I am at present at Bath with my dearest sister, whom I have found as well as I could have expected, and I hope with
- 128 I remember, that in a conversation, which M. de Rayneval, the first Secretary of Count de Vergennes, had with you and me, in the summer of 1782, you contended for our full right to the fishery, and argued it on various principles.Your letters to me, when
- 127 The Apostolical Nuncio has the honor to send Mr Franklin the enclosed note, which he requests he will be pleased to forward to the Congress of the United States of North America, and support it with his credit.July 28th, 1783.NOTE.Before the revolution, w
- 126 ARTICLE I.There shall be a firm, inviolable, and universal peace, and a sincere amity between Her Most Faithful Majesty, the Queen of Portugal, her heirs and successors, and the United States of North America, as well with respect to the citizens and subj
- 125 GIACOMO FRANCISCO CROCCO._P. S._ I was obliged to call on a friend to write you this letter in English, otherwise I could only do it in the Italian language.G. F. C.TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON.Pa.s.sy, July 22d, 1783.Sir, You have complained, sometimes with r
- 124 No subject of his Majesty, the King of Denmark and Norway, shall take a commission or letter of marque (to arm any vessel or vessels, for the purpose of acting as a privateer against the said United States, or any of them, or against their subjects, peopl
- 123 Copenhagen, July 8th, 1783.Sir, It was with the greatest alacrity, that I laid before his Majesty the letter you did me the honor to write to me, as also the project of a treaty of amity and commerce that accompanied it. The King observed, with the greate
- 122 Nothing has yet been done as to the acceptance of your resignation, nor will, as I believe, anything be done very hastily. Many think your task will not be very burdensome now, and that you may enjoy in peace the fruit of your past labors.As this will pro
- 121 TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON.Pa.s.sy, April 27th, 1783.Sir, The Count del Veome, an Italian n.o.bleman of great distinction, does me the honor to be the bearer of this. I have not the satisfaction to be personally acquainted with this gentleman, but am much so
- 120 I have the honor to offer you every information respecting this port, and flatter myself that I shall succeed therein. I think to depart from this in May or June next for Ma.r.s.eilles, and to leave these barbarian pirates.I have the honor to be, &c.SALVA
- 119 Since, by the preliminary articles of peace, concluded lately between the high belligerent powers, the ill.u.s.trious United States of North America have been acknowledged free, sovereign, and independent, and now since European powers are courting in riv
- 118 5. That all prosecutions of the loyalists in America be immediately abated, and that they be permitted to remain until twelve months after the definitive treaty, unmolested in their endeavors to obtain rest.i.tution of their estates.6. That all prisoners
- 117 JOHN JAY TO B. FRANKLIN.Paris, January 26th, 1783.Sir, It having been suspected, that I concurred in the appointment of your grandson to the place of Secretary to the American commission for peace _at your instance_, I think it right, thus unsolicited, to
- 116 TO RICHARD OSWALD.Pa.s.sy, January 14th, 1783.Sir, I am much obliged by your information of your intended trip to England; I heartily wish you a good journey, and a speedy return, and request your kind care of a packet for Mr Hodgson.I enclose two papers,
- 115 Pa.s.sy, December 24th, 1782.Sir, Sundry circ.u.mstances occurring since mine of the 5th and 14th, have hitherto r.e.t.a.r.ded the departure of our despatches. They will now go under the security of a British pa.s.sport, be accompanied by a sum of money,
- 114 1st. France is to enjoy the right of fis.h.i.+ng and drying on all the west coast of Newfoundland, down to Cape Ray. Miquelon and St Pierre to be restored, and may be fortified.2d. Senegal remains to France, and Goree to be restored. The Gambia entirely t
- 113 ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON TO B. FRANKLIN.Philadelphia, November 27th, 1782.Sir, An opportunity offering from this port to write directly to you, I do not choose to hazard anything by the post, which carries this to Boston, particularly as I did not hear till j
- 112 I know you will start a very obvious objection. But as this can only be removed by your influence where you now are, we rely upon you for the means as well as for the manner of treating. I have not thought it necessary to say anything to Congress on this
- 111 Pa.s.sy, October 14th, 1782.Sir, I have but just received information of this opportunity, and have only time allowed to write a few lines.In my last of the 26th past, I mentioned that the negotiation for peace had been obstructed, by the want of due form
- 110 The commission is pa.s.sing with as much despatch as the forms of office will allow; but I thought it material that no delay should happen, in giving you notice of the determination of his Majesty's Council upon this subject. You will receive the com
- 109 "4th Article. In case you find the American Commissioners are not at liberty to treat on any terms short of independence, you are to declare to them, that you have authority to make that concession. Our ardent wish for peace, disposing us to purchase
- 108 The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution.Vol. IV.by Various.THE CORRESPONDENCE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED.COUNT DE VERGENNES TO B. FRANKLIN.Translation.Versailles, August 23d, 1782.Sir, I have received the letter you did
- 107 END OF THE THIRD VOLUME.……
- 106 TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON.Pa.s.sy, August 12th, 1782.Sir, I have lately been honored with your several letters, No. 10, March 9th; No. 11, May 22d; and No. 12, May 30th.The paper, containing a state of the commerce in North America, and explaining the neces
- 105 I am ever your affectionate friend, D. HARTLEY.LORD GRANTHAM TO B. FRANKLIN.Whitehall, July 26th, 1782.Sir, As the first object of my wishes is to contribute to the establishment of an honorable and lasting peace, I address myself to you without ceremony,
- 104 By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death. A further step was, the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Another, to respect more the property of priv
- 103 _Friday, June 28th._ M. de Rayneval called upon me, and acquainted me that the Ministers had received intelligence from England, that besides the orders given to General Carleton to propose terms of reunion to America, artful emissaries were sent over, to
- 102 TO RICHARD OSWALD.Pa.s.sy, June 11th, 1782."Sir, "I did intend to have waited on you this morning to inquire after your health, and deliver the enclosed paper relating to the parole of Lord Cornwallis, but being obliged to go to Versailles, I mu
- 101 Mr Oswald has an air of great simplicity and honesty, yet I could hardly take this to be merely a weak confession of their deplorable state, and thought it might be rather intended as a kind of intimidation, by showing us that they had still that resource
- 100 I answered, that I should always esteem it an honor to be owned as a countryman of Mr Fox. He had requested me at our last interview, that if I saw no impropriety in doing it, I would favor him with a sight of the treaty of alliance between France and Ame
- 99 "I had the honor of addressing you on the 30th ult. by post, a duplicate of which will accompany this, in order to guard against the effect of a miscarriage in the first instance, and I beg leave to refer you to the contents."On the 10th current
- 98 "I am happy too, in understanding from your letter, that transports are actually preparing to convey our prisoners to America, and that attention will be paid to their accommodation and good treatment.Those people on their return will be dispersed th
- 97 On the whole, I was able to draw so little from Mr Oswald of the sentiments of Lord Shelburne, who had mentioned him as intrusted with the communication of them, that I could not but wonder at his being sent again to me, especially as Mr Grenville was so
- 96 "I am honored with your favor of the 20th of April, and Mr Laurens's son proposes to carry the letter to his father forthwith. The instructions by the courier from Versailles came safe, as all other despatches by that channel no doubt will do. T
- 95 TO JOHN ADAMS.Pa.s.sy, April 20th, 1782."Sir, "I hope your Excellency received the copy of our instructions, which I sent by the courier from Versailles, some weeks since. I wrote to you on the 13th, to go by Captain Smedley, and sent a packet o
- 94 HENRY LAURENS TO B. FRANKLIN.London, April 7th, 1782."Dear Sir, "Richard Oswald, Esquire, who will do me the honor of delivering this, is a gentleman of the strictest candor and integrity. I dare give such a.s.surances from an experience little
- 93 I have received your respective letters of January 26th and February 13th. The first was accompanied with a form of a convention for the establishment of consuls. Mr Barclay having been detained these six months in Holland, though in continual expectation
- 92 RICHARD OSWALD TO B. FRANKLIN.Paris, June 5th, 1782.Sir, While Mr Laurens was under confinement in England, he promised, that on condition of his being liberated upon his parole, he would apply to you for an exchange in favor of Lord Cornwallis, by a disc
- 91 In the mode which I have proposed of unraveling the present subjects of jealousy and contest, I would make my proposals openly to France herself. Let America be free, and enjoy happiness and peace forever.If France and Great Britain have jealousies or riv
- 90 TO DAVID HARTLEY.Pa.s.sy, April 13th, 1782.Dear Sir, Since mine of the 5th, I have thought further of the subject of our late letters. You were of opinion, that the late Ministry desired _sincerely_ a reconciliation with America, and with that view a sepa
- 89 TO DAVID HARTLEY.Pa.s.sy, April 5th, 1782.My Dear Friend, I wrote a few lines to you the 31st past, and promised to write more fully. On perusing again your letters of the 11th, 12th, and 21st, I do not find any notice taken of one from me, dated February
- 88 His answers to my questions were nearly what I foretold and expected, and are substantially what Lord Beauchamp seemed so anxious to procure. When I relate this answer to his Lords.h.i.+p, my business will be finished in that quarter. I will here explain
- 87 Pa.s.sy, March 9th, 1782.Sir, I have just received the honor of yours dated January the 7th. Your communications of the sentiments of Congress, with regard to many points that may come under consideration in a treaty of peace, give me great pleasure, and
- 86 February 28th, 1782.My Dear Friend, I have not as yet anything to communicate to you. I have upon many occasions recommended the road to peace in the most earnest way. I am not without hopes. I think I may venture to say, that the arguments which I have s
- 85 I received at the same time, your several letters of October 20th, 24th, and November 26th, which I purpose to answer fully by the return of the Alliance. Having just had a very short notice of the departure of this s.h.i.+p, I can only at present mention
- 84 I received the letter your Excellency did me the honor of writing to me this day enclosing a Memorial,[28] which relates to the interests of some subjects of the Emperor, residing at Ostend, who allege that a s.h.i.+p of theirs has been taken by an Americ
- 83 Dear Sir, As it does not appear improbable, that the humiliation and misfortunes of Great Britain may produce the same sentiments, which a spirit of moderation dictates to the other belligerent powers, and lead her to concur with them in their wishes for
- 82 I received your favor of September 26th, containing your very judicious proposition of securing the spectators in the opera and play houses from the danger of fire. I communicated it where I thought it might be useful. You will see by the enclosed, that t
- 81 Sir, Major General du Portail will have the honor to present this.Congress, in consideration of their long and faithful services in this country, have granted permission to him and Colonels de Laumoy and de Gourion, to revisit their friends in Europe for