[Document, 1794 September 07]
- Title
- [Document, 1794 September 07]
- Library Location
- Name
- Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
- Grenville, Lord (Addressee)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- September 07, 1794
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 4 pages
- Subjects
- United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- Reply to Grenville's "private" letter of same date. Interested to hear of Monroe's reception in France. As for Randolph's intemperate remarks on the French Revolution and present government, feels that the Secretary was "swept along" by popular feeling. Moralizes on the "allowances" to be made for "human nature". Apologizes for writing so confidentially to Grenville, but thinks that their relationship can bear such confidence. As for present negotiations, let what is in the past remain in the past; useless to rake over old grievances: "Let us go on, my Lord! and having done all that dispassionate Reason may indicate as wise and prudent, leave the Issue to Providence--" Believes that it is natural for France to try and create dissension between Britain and U.S. Must beware this "snare".
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.03996