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Writings of John Quincy Adams Volume 6
Writings of John Quincy Adams Volume 6
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TO EDWARD WYER London, 13th April, 1816. Sir: I ought perhaps in candor to inform you that shortly after I had the pleasure of meeting you at Gothenburg, several letters written by you accidentally fell into my hands open. They contained animadversions upon the persons then commissioned on the part of the United States for the negotiation of the peace which I thought unsuitable, and which the event has happily proved to have been ill- founded. I was not individually named in those remarks, but neither was I excepted from them. You had delivered to me at Gothenburg several letters of recommendation from worthy and most respectable friends of mine in America, and you had expressed to me sentiments of regard which I thought inconsistent with the general censure passed upon all the commissioners in your letters written at the same time, and should however have overlooked everything that merely concerned myself. But there was in two or three of the letters a charge of the foulest corruption upon the present administration of the United States, a charge which I hope you are now convinced was rash and utterly groundless, a charge which I then thought and still think unbecoming in the letters of a person bearing a commission under that very administration. If you have copies of those letters you can recur to them, and if not, you will doubtless recollectthe substance of them. If you have any explanation to give concerning them I shall be happy to receive it, and to find it such as to justify the confidence of those gentlemen who so strongly recommended you to mine.1 Meanwhile I remain, etc. did not know. They did not meddle with the dry goods line. Young Glennie said they had declined executing many orders that they had received to purchase goods, knowing that if they should send...
This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
TO EDWARD WYER London, 13th April, 1816. Sir: I ought perhaps in candor to inform you that shortly after I had the pleasure of meeting you at Gothenburg, several letters written by you accidentally fell into my hands open. They contained animadversions upon the persons then commissioned on the part of the United States for the negotiation of the peace which I thought unsuitable, and which the event has happily proved to have been ill- founded. I was not individually named in those remarks, but neither was I excepted from them. You had delivered to me at Gothenburg several letters of recommendation from worthy and most respectable friends of mine in America, and you had expressed to me sentiments of regard which I thought inconsistent with the general censure passed upon all the commissioners in your letters written at the same time, and should however have overlooked everything that merely concerned myself. But there was in two or three of the letters a charge of the foulest corruption upon the present administration of the United States, a charge which I hope you are now convinced was rash and utterly groundless, a charge which I then thought and still think unbecoming in the letters of a person bearing a commission under that very administration. If you have copies of those letters you can recur to them, and if not, you will doubtless recollectthe substance of them. If you have any explanation to give concerning them I shall be happy to receive it, and to find it such as to justify the confidence of those gentlemen who so strongly recommended you to mine.1 Meanwhile I remain, etc. did not know. They did not meddle with the dry goods line. Young Glennie said they had declined executing many orders that they had received to purchase goods, knowing that if they should send...