The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, 第 2 巻U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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acquainted America answer appointed arms army arrival ARTHUR LEE assured Beaumarchais Bigelow's Franklin Britain British Captain Colonies commerce commission commissioners Committee of Foreign Committee of Secret conduct Congress consequence considered copy Corr Count d'Estaing court of France DEAR SIR declaration desire dispatches Dumas enemy engaged England English esteem Europe excellency expect favor fleet Foreign Affairs French friends frigates gentlemen Gerard give Holland honor hope inclosed informed Island Izard JAMES LOVELL JOHN ADAMS king King of Prussia Lee's letter liberty livres Lord Lovell majesty minister ministry Morris Nantes nation obliged officers opinion papers Paris Parliament PASSY peace person Philadelphia ports Portugal present prisoners prizes proposed RALPH IZARD received respect ROBERT MORRIS sent ships SILAS DEANE soon Spain Sparks tion treaty troops United verbal changes Vergennes vessels wish write
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95 ページ - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
792 ページ - It is likewise agreed that it shall be wholly free for all merchants, commanders of ships and other citizens of both countries to manage themselves their own business in all the ports and places subject to the jurisdiction of each other, as well with respect to the consignment and sale of their goods and...
741 ページ - But it shall be allowed to the subjects of France, to catch fish, and to dry them on land, in that part only, and in no other besides that, of the said island of Newfoundland, which stretches from the place called Cape Bonavista, to the northern point of the said island, and from thence running down by the western side, reaches as far as the place called Point Riche.
103 ページ - Directing pardons to be offered the colonies, who are the very parties injured, expresses indeed that opinion of our ignorance, baseness, and insensibility, which your uninformed and proud nation has long been pleased to entertain of us ; but it can have no other effect than that of increasing our resentment.
59 ページ - Great frugality and great industry are now become fashionable here. Gentlemen, who used to entertain with two or three courses, pride themselves now in treating with simple beef and pudding. By these means, and the stoppage of our consumptive trade with Britain, we shall be better able to pay our voluntary taxes for the support of our troops. Our savings in the article of trade amount to near five millions sterling per annum.
796 ページ - Contracting parties, although the whole lading or any part thereof should appertain to the enemies of either, Contraband goods being always excepted.
43 ページ - ... regard to the character and dignity of their body, as a third part of the national legislature, gave me an exceeding mean opinion of their abilities, and made their claim of sovereignty over three millions of virtuous, sensible people in America seem the greatest of absurdities, since they appeared to have scarce discretion enough to govern a herd of swine. Hereditary legislators! thought I. There would be more propriety, because less hazard of mischief, in having (as in some university of Germany)...
832 ページ - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
643 ページ - I have the honor to be, with the most profound respect, your Excellency's most obedient, and most humble servant, TH: JEFFERSON.
795 ページ - In case the subjects and inhabitants of either party, with their shipping, whether publick and of war, or private and of merchants, be forced through stress of weather, pursuit of pirates or enemies, or any other urgent necessity...