Perhaps it may yet be known in time
to communicate to you by this opportunity. Our bank was filled with
subscriptions the moment it was opened. Eight millions of dollars
were the whole permitted to be subscribed, of which two millions were
deposited in cash, the residue to be public paper. Every other symptom
is equally favorable to our credit.
The President has returned from his southern tour in good health. You
will receive herewith the newspapers up to the present date.
I have the honor to be, with great esteem Dear Sir, your most obedient
and most humble servant,
Th; Jefferson.
LETTER LXVII.--TO M. VAN BERKEL, July 14,1791
TO M. VAN BERKEL.
Philadelphia, July 14,1791.
Sir,
I take the liberty of troubling you with the perusal of the enclosed
papers from Mr. Shaw, Consul for the United States in the East Indies;
wherein you will observe, he complains of a prohibition from the
government of Batavia, to American ships, by name, to have any trade
in that port, while such trade was permitted to other nations. I do not
hesitate to presume, that something has been misunderstood in this case.
My presumption is founded on those sentiments of general amity which
subsist between our government and that of the United Netherlands, and
also on the whole tenor of our treaty, which secures to us always the
treatment of the most favored nation.
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