LETTER CXVII.--TO THE PRESIDENT, August 19, 1792
TO THE PRESIDENT.
Monticello, August 19, 1792.
Sir,
I was yesterday honored with yours of the 13th instant, covering the
Governor of Vermont's of July the 16th. I presume it can not now be long
before I shall receive his answer to the two letters I wrote him from
Philadelphia on the same subject. I now enclose letters received by
yesterday's post from Mr. Hammond, Mr. William Knox, and Mr. Paleske,
with answers to the two latter. Should these meet your approbation, you
will be so good as to seal and let them go on under the cover to Mr.
Taylor, who will have them conveyed according to their address. Should
you wish any alteration of them, it shall be made on their being
returned. The Prussian treaty is, I believe, within four years of its
expiration. I suspect that personal motives alone induce Mr. Paleske to
press for a convention, which could hardly be formed and ratified before
it would expire; and that his court cannot lay much stress on it. Mr.
Hammond's former explanations of his notification of the 12th of
April having been laid before Congress, may perhaps make it proper to
communicate to them also his sovereign's approbation of them.
I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the most perfect respect and
attachment, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
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