As yet, however, they
have not led to peace. Mr. Hammond has lately arrived here, as Minister
Plenipotentiary from the court of London, and we propose to name one
to that court in return. Congress will probably establish the ratio
of representation by a bill now before them, at one representative for
every thirty thousand inhabitants. Besides the newspapers, as usual, you
will receive herewith the census lately taken, by towns and counties as
well as by States.
I am, with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and
most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER LXXXV.--TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, December 5,1791
TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Philadelphia, December 5,1791.
Dear Sir,
The enclosed memorial from the British minister, on the case of Thomas
Pagan, containing a complaint of injustice in the dispensations of
law by the courts of Massachusetts to a British subject, the President
approves of my referring it to you, to report thereon your opinion of
the proceedings, and whether any thing, and what, can or ought to be
done by the government in consequence thereof.
I am, with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and
most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
[_The Memorial of the British minister_.]
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the
United States of America, has the honor of laying before the Secretary
of State, the following brief abstract of the case of Thomas Pagan, a
subject of his Britannic Majesty, now confined in the prison of Boston,
under an execution issued against him out of the Supreme Judicial Court
of Massachusetts Bay.
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