doi:10.7916/sypx-ra72[Document, 1797 June 08]Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829correspondencetextUnited States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809Jay, John, 1745-1829Pickering's letter to General Pinckney, containing the interpretation of the temporary nature of the agreement in the ninth article of the convention of the armed neutrality, has occasioned much reproach among the democrats, or "French Devotees." He would like John Jay's opinion on the subject.