Title
[Document, 1810 January 24]
Library Location
Name
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author)
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
January 24, 1810
Language
English
Physical Description
4 pages
Subjects
United States--History--1809-1817; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
In conversation with Jasper Moylan, he has learned that several men were ruined in commercial speculation on the advice of Franklin due to Jay's negotiation of the Treaty of Peace with Britain. Has also discovered through Jay's correspondence on negotiations with Oswald that the former concluded the treaty without Franklin's participation, being afraid to trust him, and though Vergennes sent his secretary, Rayneval, to counteract the measure, he was too late. It appeared also that Adams concurred with Jay. Franklin fell in with the others after the negotiations had proceeded past retraction, and his favorable representation before Congress was due to Jay's charity. It seems that others opposed ratification without the advice of France, among them Madison and Chancellor Livingston. Wishes an explanation of the motives of Vergennes in leaving American independence to a stipulated article of the treaty against Jay's insistence that it be taken as an existing fact. Vergennes also urged the relinquishment of all territorial claims west of the Allegheny Mountains to Spain; is induced to think the subsequent retrocession of Louisiana to France was then in contemplation. Would like to receive any facts which John Jay can communicate on the true character of France toward the United States at the period referred to.
Identifier
columbia.jay.04843