United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
An ordinance here requires that all letters be put in the post office
subject to the same postage as if they had come in a royal packet boat from New Spain.
Letters henceforth should be sent to Gardoqui at Bilboa or to Harrison at Cadiz with a
request to forward them to John Jay. Asks for a copy of the Constitution of
Massachusetts. "If we should be deluded into a careless security by uncertain prospects
and precarious probabilities of peace we shall instantly cease to be respectable in the
eyes of our friends or formidable in those of our enemies, and consequently be in a
situation rather to receive than insist upon the terms of it."