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Wood (search for this): chapter 30
ositions on both sides there is reason to hope that the good work in its progress will meet with little difficulty. A small one has occurred, with which Mr. Oswald will acquaint you. I flatter myself that means will be found on your part for removing it, and my best endeavors in removing subsequent ones (if any should arise) may be relied on; but Franklin neither criminated France, nor compromised himself, nor his country, nor his colleague. Rayneval passed through London directly to Bow Wood, the country seat of Shelburne in the west of Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Sept. England. I trust what you say as much as if Mr. de Vergennes himself were speaking to me, were the words with which he was welcomed. Gibraltar, observed Rayneval, is as dear to the king of Spain as his life. Shelburne answered: Its cession is impossible: I dare not propose it to the British nation. Spain wishes to become complete mistress of the Gulf of Mexico, continued Rayneval. On this point, Shelburne opened the
Grantham (search for this): chapter 30
us to understand them ourselves; there is need of but three persons to make peace, myself, the Count de Vergennes, and you. I shall be as pacific in negotiating as I shall be active for war, if war must be continued, he added, on 14. the fourteenth. Rayneval replied: Count de Vergennes will, without ceasing, preach justice and moderation. It is his own code, and it is that of the king. On the fifteenth, they both came up to Lon- 15. don, where, on the sixteenth, Rayneval met Lord 16. Grantham. Nothing could be more decided than his refusal to treat about Gibraltar. On the seventeenth, 17. in bidding farewell to Rayneval, Shelburne said, in the most serious tone and the most courteous manner: have been deeply touched by everything you have said to me about the character of the king of France, his principles of justice and moderation, his love of peace. I wish, not only to re-establish peace between the two nations and the two sovereigns, but to bring them to a cordiality which
Vergennes (search for this): chapter 30
IX.} 1782. parole, brought from Shelburne to Vergennes suggestions, which left Spain as the only obland. I trust what you say as much as if Mr. de Vergennes himself were speaking to me, were the wor 14. the fourteenth. Rayneval replied: Count de Vergennes will, without ceasing, preach justice anade accord exactly with those of France; Count de Vergennes thinks that freedom is the soul of commeshould treat otherwise than as independent. Vergennes pressed upon Jay a settlement of claims withm. On the fourteenth of the same 14. month, Vergennes thus explained to the French envoy at Philad of their cause exacts. You know, continued Vergennes, our system with regard to Canada. Everythi influence of France to bend the Americans. Vergennes had especially pleaded with them strongly ine final instructions to Oswald were written, Vergennes declared in a letter to Luzerne: There existhe, soit par rapport à laetendue des limitss Vergennes to Luzerne, 23 Nov., 1782. In spite of all t[3 more...]
William Franklin (search for this): chapter 30
to the Americans, was communicated to Jay and Franklin. Jay was thrown from his equipoise. Having s (if any should arise) may be relied on; but Franklin neither criminated France, nor compromised hi: I look upon the treaty as now closed. Both Franklin and Jay had agreed that, if it should be apprtif et de certain á cet égard, Messrs. Jay et Franklin se tenant dans la reserve la plus absolue à m same day, Adams called for the first time on Franklin, who at once put him on his guard as to the B the unsettled points of the treaty. Jay and Franklin had left the north-eastern boundary to be setunsettled parts of the coast of Nova Scotia. Franklin said further: I observe as to catching fish yefin- 4. itively overruled the objections of Franklin to the recognition by treaty of the validity and so would have been fatal to the treaty. Franklin saw the danger and interposed: If any furtherby a declaration in the preamble. Friends of Franklin gathered around him, and as the Duke of Roche[12 more...]
Lafayette (search for this): chapter 30
o to act that posterity may not lay the downfall of Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Sept. this once respectable empire to my door; and that if ruin should attend the measures that may be adopted, I may not long survive them. The delay had given time to British creditors and to the refugees to muster all their strength and embarrass the negotiation by their importunities. On purely Spanish questions, Jay appears to the best advantage. On the twenty-sixth of September, 26. Aranda, in company with Lafayette, encountered him at Versailles. Aranda asked: When shall we proceed to do business? Jay replied, When you communicate your powers to treat. An exchange of commissions, said Aranda, cannot be expected, for Spain has not acknowledged your independence. We have declared our independence, said Jay; and France, Holland, and Britain have acknowledged it. Lafayette came to his aid, and told the ambassador that it was not consistent with the dignity of France that an ally of hers like the Uni
De Grasse (search for this): chapter 30
Chapter 29: Peace between the United States and Great Britain. 1782. de Grasse, as he passed through London on Chap. XXIX.} 1782. parole, brought from Shelburne to Vergennes suggestions, which left Spain as the only obstacle in the way of peace. To conciliate that power, Jay was invited to Versailles, where, on the fourth of Sep- Sept. 4. tember, Rayneval sought to persuade him to resign for his country all pretensions to the eastern valley of the Mississippi, and with it the right to the navigation of that stream. Jay was inflexible. On the sixth, Rayneval sent him a paper containing a long 6. argument against the pretensions of America to touch the Mississippi, or the great lakes; and on the next morning, after an interview with the Spanish ambas- 7. sador, he set off for England, to establish a good understanding with Shelburne. On the ninth, the departure of Rayneval came to 9. the knowledge of Jay. On the tenth, a translation 10. of an intercepted despatc
Poland (search for this): chapter 30
tween the two nations and the two sovereigns, but to bring them to a cordiality which will constitute their reciprocal happiness. Not only are they not natural enemies, as men have thought till now; but they have interests which ought to bring them nearer together. We have each lost consideration in our furious desire to do each other harm. Let us change principles that are so erroneous. Let us reunite, and we shall stop all revolutions in Europe. By revolutions he meant the division of Poland, the encroachments on Turkey, and the attempt of the court of Vienna to bring Italy under its control by seizing the fine harbors of Dalmatia. There is another object, continued Shelburne, Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Sept. 17. which makes a part of my political views; and that is the destruction of monopoly in commerce. I regard that monopoly as odious, though the English nation, more than any other, is tainted with it. I flatter myself I shall be able to come to an understanding with your court
Richard Oswald (search for this): chapter 30
culty. A small one has occurred, with which Mr. Oswald will acquaint you. I flatter myself that meae American commissioners should be accepted by Oswald under the king's authority, or directly by thece, which was equally grateful to Franklin and Oswald, and a concession to the British of the free hap. XXIX.} 1782. Sept. peatedly insisted with Oswald, that West Florida should not be left in the htreaty with the United States, as agreed to by Oswald, came back to England, the offer of Jay of the left unchanged; but the cabinet complained of Oswald for yielding everything, and gave him for an athirtieth, the American commissioners met 30. Oswald and Strachey, and for four several days they dd Adams and Jay to join with him in letters to Oswald and to Strachey, expressing in conciliatory las continued. On the twenty-ninth, Strachey, Oswald, and Fitzherbert, on the one side, and Jay, Fr rather than expose it to risk, he joined with Oswald. Fitzherbert, now left alone, reflected that [16 more...]
John Adams (search for this): chapter 30
commission was recruited by the arrival of John Adams. He had Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Oct. 20. prevait. The day after Strachey's arrival in Paris, Adams, encountering him and Oswald at the house of Jent of debts. In the evening of the same day, Adams called for the first time on Franklin, who at y commissioners after the war. It is due to John Adams, who had taken the precaution Chap. XXIX.} r a great deal of conversation, agreed to by John Adams as well as his colleagues, upon condition thy wrote to the secretary of state that Jay and Adams would likewise assent to the indemnification ose of America. At the same time, he persuaded Adams and Jay to join with him in letters to Oswald Shelburne could have received the admonition, Adams, Franklin, and Jay met Oswald and Strachey at tzherbert, on the one side, and Jay, Franklin, Adams, and, for the first time, Laurens, on the othethe government at home. We can wait, answered Adams, till a courier goes to London. The reference[2 more...]
Grafton (search for this): chapter 30
s and Jay to join with him in letters to Oswald and to Strachey, expressing in conciliatory language their unanimous sentiments that an amnesty more extensive than what had already been agreed to could not be granted to the refugees. Before Strachey reached London with the second set of articles for peace, the friends of Fox had forgotten their zeal for American independence. All parties unanimously demanded amnesty and indemnity for the loyalists. Within the cabinet itself, Camden and Grafton were ill at ease; Keppell and Richmond inclining to cut loose. The king could not avoid mentioning how sensibly he felt the dismemberment of America from the empire: I should be miserable indeed, said he, if I did not feel that no blame on that account can be laid at my Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Nov. door. Moreover, he thought so ill of its inhabitants, that it may not, he said, in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom. In the general tremulousness among the minist
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