MONROE, JAMES, President . Autograph letter signed ("Jas Monroe") as Minister to France, TO JOHN JAY, Chief Justice and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain, Paris, 17 January 1795. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (9 3/4 x 8 in.), integral blank, edges a trifle wrinkled , otherwise in good condition. MONROE TO JAY ON FRANCE'S UNEASE OVER JAY'S TREATY A detailed letter between diplomats regarding France's concern over the terms of the recently negotiated Jay's Treaty: "...English papers were received here containing such accounts of your adjustment with the British administration as excited much uneasiness in the councils of this [French] government and I had it in contemplation to dispatch a confidential person to you for such information of what had been done as would enable me to remove it. At that moment however I was favored with yours of the 25 of Nov[ember] intimating that the contents of the treaty could not be made known until it was ratified, but that I might say it contained nothing derogatory to our existing treaties with other powers...I proceeded therefore to make the best use in my power of the information already given...I find you consider yourself at liberty to communicate to me the contents of the treaty, and as it is of great importance to our efforts here...I...resume my original plan of sending a person to you...for that purpose...[I]n case I should be favored with the communication promised in cypher, it would be impossible for me to comprehend it...It is necessary however to observe that as nothing will satisfy this government but a copy of the instrument itself , and which as our ally it thinks itself entitled to , so it will be useless for me to make to it any new communication short of that..." John Jay was sent to England on a special peace mission and, in negotiations with Lord Grenville, acquiesced in British maritime measures and to the establishment of a commission to adjudicate claims in return for Britain's removal of troops from the Northwest Territory as promised under the Treaty of Paris. The treaty's forfeiture of the right of neutrality on the seas made ratification of the treaty extremely difficult.
MONROE, JAMES, President . Autograph letter signed ("Jas Monroe") as Minister to France, TO JOHN JAY, Chief Justice and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain, Paris, 17 January 1795. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (9 3/4 x 8 in.), integral blank, edges a trifle wrinkled , otherwise in good condition. MONROE TO JAY ON FRANCE'S UNEASE OVER JAY'S TREATY A detailed letter between diplomats regarding France's concern over the terms of the recently negotiated Jay's Treaty: "...English papers were received here containing such accounts of your adjustment with the British administration as excited much uneasiness in the councils of this [French] government and I had it in contemplation to dispatch a confidential person to you for such information of what had been done as would enable me to remove it. At that moment however I was favored with yours of the 25 of Nov[ember] intimating that the contents of the treaty could not be made known until it was ratified, but that I might say it contained nothing derogatory to our existing treaties with other powers...I proceeded therefore to make the best use in my power of the information already given...I find you consider yourself at liberty to communicate to me the contents of the treaty, and as it is of great importance to our efforts here...I...resume my original plan of sending a person to you...for that purpose...[I]n case I should be favored with the communication promised in cypher, it would be impossible for me to comprehend it...It is necessary however to observe that as nothing will satisfy this government but a copy of the instrument itself , and which as our ally it thinks itself entitled to , so it will be useless for me to make to it any new communication short of that..." John Jay was sent to England on a special peace mission and, in negotiations with Lord Grenville, acquiesced in British maritime measures and to the establishment of a commission to adjudicate claims in return for Britain's removal of troops from the Northwest Territory as promised under the Treaty of Paris. The treaty's forfeiture of the right of neutrality on the seas made ratification of the treaty extremely difficult.
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