University of Virginia Library

TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Dear Sir, I enclose an authentication of the
blood of our Merinos, as translated from the Original
by Mr. Graham: also a state of the charges incident
to their passage, &c. The half falling to your share,
of course, may be left for any convenient occasion
of being replaced. You need not trouble yourself
to remit it hither.

On the first publication of the despatches by the
John Adams,[22] so strong a feeling was produced by
Armstrong's picture of the French robbery, that
the attitude in which England was placed by the correspondence
between P. & Wellesley was overlooked.
The public attention is beginning to fix itself on
the proof it affords that the original sin agst. Neutrals
lies with G. B. & that whilst she acknowledges it, she
persists in it.

I am preparing for a departure from this place
immediately after the 4th. July. Having been deprived
of the Spring visit to my Farm, I wish to
commence the sooner the full recess. Be assured
of my highest & most affece. esteem.

Have you recd. a copy of Coopers (the Pena Judge)

masterly opinion[23] on the question whether the sentence
of a foreign Admiralty Court in a prize Cause
be conclusive evidence in a suit here between the
Underwriter & Insured? It is a most thorough, investigation,
and irrefragable disproof of the B. Doctrine
on the subject, as adopted by a decision of the
Supreme Court of the U. S. If you are without a
copy, I will provide & forward one.