11From John Jay to Floridablanca, 9 October 1781 (Jay Papers)
The Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 8 th Instant, arrived this Morning. I consider myself much obliged by the Communication of the Facts mentioned in it, especially as it affords me an opportunity of manifesting to his majesty and to Congress, my attention to his Rights, and to their orders. I perfectly agree in Sentiment with your Excellency respecting the...
12From John Jay to Floridablanca, 11 December 1780 (Jay Papers)
Some of the Bills drawn on me, will probably become due, before M r Cabarrus’s operations can be brought to an Issue. So far as their Failure would injure the Credit, and relax the operations of a People actually at War with the Enemies of his Catholic Majesty, & opposing those Enemies in the very neighbourhood of his Dominions; it may certainly be considered as a matter interesting to Spain....
13From John Jay to Floridablanca, 29 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
By the address of Congress to their Constituents, on the Subject of their Finances, which I had the Honor of transmitting to your Excellency, you have doubtless observed, that in September last Congress came to a Resolution of emitting no more Bills, than with those already emitted and in Circulation, would amount to 200′000′000 of Dollars. That about the same Time they called upon their...
14From John Jay to Floridablanca, 12 May 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is with the utmost Reluctance that I can prevail upon myself, to draw your Excellency’s Attention from the great objects that perpetually engage ^ it. ^ —but the Liberality, Frankness, and Candor which distinguished your Conduct towards me the last Evening has impressed me with such correspondent Sentiments of Delicacy, as to place me in a most disagreable Situation. Deeply sensible of the...
15From John Jay to Floridablanca, 11 July 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r Jay presents his respectful Complements to his Excellency the Count D FloridaBlanca, and has the Honor of informing him that Don Carlos Maria Marraci of this Place has presented to him for acceptance Bills amounting in the whole to 1665 Dollars. The Mess rs . Joyce consent to having their Bills payable at Bilboa, but have acquainted M r . Jay that the Name of the House there by whom they...
16From John Jay to Floridablanca, 21 September 1785 (Jay Papers)
When Count de Galvez lately came to the Government of the Havanna, he found there several Americans who, during the Administration of his Predecessor, had experienced much Rigour, and been exposed to various and unusual Hardships. The Intelligence of these Transactions had reached Congress, and given them Concern, when shortly afterwards they were informed that Count de Galvez had pursued...
17From John Jay to Floridablanca, 6 November 1781 (Jay Papers)
It gives me much concern to be informed that the Conduct of Captain Hill of the Cicero, an American private ship of war, towards one of his Catholic Majesty’s Cutters, has been so represented to your Excellency, as to have given me occasion to an order for detaining him at Bilboa— This unfortunate affair is represented to me as follows viz t That Captain Hill in the Cicero, with a prize he had...
18From John Jay to Floridablanca, 12 November 1781 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . the Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 8 th . Instant. It gives me Pain to hear, that the Conduct of an American Vessel of war should be so reprehensible, as that of the Cicero has been represented to be. It is proper that I should inform your Excellency that the Captains of all American private Ships of War give Bond, with Sureties, to fulfil the...
19From John Jay to Floridablanca, 16 November 1781 (Jay Papers)
I find myself constrained to beseech your Excellency, to think a little of my Situation. Congress flatter themselves, that the offer they have made, would certainly induce his Majesty, at least to assist them with some Supplies— The Residue of the Bills drawn upon me, remain to be provided for— Those payable in next month, amount to 31′809 Dollars—would it be too inconvenient to your...
20From John Jay to Floridablanca, 22 March 1781 (Jay Papers)
M r del Campo having informed M r Carmichael that the exact amount of the Cloathing purchased by M r Harrison, & the Expences attending it, ought to be ascertained, in order that the whole may at once be settled: I think it my Duty to acquaint your Excellency, that I have no further Intelligence on this Subject than what was conveyed in the last Letter I had the Honor to write you on the 15 th...