2619. ENGLAND, Commerce with.—[further continued].
England declines all arrangements
with us. They say their commerce
is so necessary to us, that we shall not
deny it to ourselves for the sake of the carrying
business, as the only trade they leave us
is that with Great Britain immediately, and
that is a losing one. I hope we shall show
them we have sense and spirit enough to suppress
that, or at least to exclude them from
any share in the carriage of our commodities.
Their spirit towards us is deeply hostile and
they seem as if they did not fear a war with
us.—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. i, 559.
(P.
1786)
