1305. CLAIMANTS, Assistance to.—
It
is impossible for me to give any authority for
the advance of moneys to Mr. Wilson. Were
we to do it in his case, we should, on the
same principles, be obliged to do it in several
others, wherein foreign nations decline or
delay doing justice to our citizens. No law of
the United States would cover such an act
of the executive; and all we can do legally is
to give him all the aid which our patronage
of his claims with the British court can effect,—
To Thomas Pinckney. Washington ed. iii, 526.
(Pa.,
17931793)gt;
