11From 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...
12From John Jay to Floridablanca, 11 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r Jay presents his respectful Compliments to his Excellency the Count D’Florida Blanca, and has the Honor of informing him, that since the Date of his last, Bills to the Amount of six thousand six hundred Dollars, have been presented to him for acceptance. M r Jay has prevailed upon the Holders of these Bills, to wait six or Eight Days for his Answer, on a Promise that the Time for their...
13From John Jay to Floridablanca, 16 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
The Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 12 th . Inst: was delivered to me Yesterday. The kind Concern you are pleased to express for the Delay, which suspends my recieving a positive Answer respecting the Bills, demands my Acknowledgements, and is an additional Proof of that generous Sensibility, which enduced your Excellency to tell me, “that your Friendship for...
14From John Jay to Floridablanca, 18 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
I never find myself more disagreably circumstanced, than when my Duty constrains me to be troublesome to those, to whom I wish to afford only Pleasure & Satisfaction. Such is my present Situation. Monday next I percieve is to be a critical Day. Other Bills, besides Mess rs . Joyes [Joyce], are then to be represented. M r . Gardoqui of Bilboa writes me that he has recieved Bills on me for...
15From John Jay to Floridablanca, 25 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
I arrived here this morning, but was prevented from immediately doing myself the Honor of paying my Respects to your Excellency, by fatigue & Indisposition. In a Letter I had the Honor of writing to your Excellency on the 16 th . Instant I mentioned that the holders of the Bills began to grow impatient. On the 18 th . Instant I informed your Excellency by another Letter, that their...
16From John Jay to Floridablanca, 14 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
The information I received yesterday from your Excellency, by M r Gardoqui, has drawn the affair of the Bills of Exchange to a conclusion. He told me that the Exigencies of the State would not permit his Majesty to provide for the payment of more of those bills than were already accepted, amounting to about 14′000 dollars. As it is important that every Nation at war should know exactly the...
17From 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....
18From 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...
19From John Jay to Floridablanca, 2 April 1781 (Jay Papers)
Be pleased to accept my Thanks for having ordered the Ballance due on the Cloathing, purchased by M r Harrison, to be paid; & for having so arranged the Payment of the Money to which the Bills of this month amount, as to enable the Embassador of France effectually effectually to interpose his kind offices to relieve me from the distressing necessity of protesting them. I lament the...
20From John Jay to Floridablanca, 28 June 1781 (Jay Papers)
Agreable to your Excellencys Request I have now the honor of again submitting to your Consideration a particular State of the Case of the unfortunate Americans, who after Capturing the Dover Cutter and bringing her safe to Santa Cruz in the Island of Teneriff the 15 th April 1780 have ^ not ^ as yet reaped the Fruits they expected from that successful tho’ dangerous Enterprize. Your...