The British Secretary of State informed them that the project of the
commercial treaty contained political articles which must be deleted; as he would not
further elaborate, they drew up a new project with fewer articles. In this new draft
they have excluded a provision that American built ships should enjoy equal status with
British built ships in th e imperial trade; this omission is due to their feeling that it
would not be agreed to, and that no party in England would support the request.
Portuguese treaty nears completion. They enclose extracts of some correspondence. Treaty
with Turkey cannot be negotiated in time.
Subjects
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Format
correspondence
Genre
correspondence
Date
1786 April 25
Physical Description
3
Note
The entire content of the original has been digitized.
