Does not know whether to congratulate or to console Jay on his new appointment. Jay's instructions direct him to obey the dictates of the French Minister. In such a servile situation "to have relaxed on all sides, to have given up all things might easily have been expected from those minds which softened by wealth and debased by fear are unable to gain and unworthy to enjoy the blessings of freedom ." If the Spanish Court desires peace and freedom, state our present terms which include the cession of the Mississippi and in own of Jamaica as an ultimatum of Peace?
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United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829