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7892. SHORT (William), Diplomatic services.—[further continued] .

The President has joined
you in a special and temporary commission with
Mr. Carmichael to repair to Madrid, and there
negotiate certain matters respecting the navigation
of the Mississippi, and other points of
common interest between Spain and us.—
To William Short. Washington ed. iii, 324. Ford ed., v, 427.
(Pa., Jan. 1792)


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