de Calonne,
have greatly impaired his reputation.
LETTER CCVII.--TO JAMES MADISON, June 18, 1789
TO JAMES MADISON.
Paris, June 18, 1789.
Sir,
My last to you was of May the 11th. Yours of March the 29th came to
hand ten days ago; and about two days ago, I received a cover of your
hand-writing, under which were a New York paper of May the 4th, and a
letter from Mr. Page to Mazzei. There being no letter from you, makes me
hope there is one on the way, which will inform me of my _conge_. I
have never received Mr. Jay's answer to my public letter of November the
19th, which you mention him to have written, and which I fear has been
intercepted. I know only from you, that my letter got safe to hand. My
baggage has been made up more than a month, so that I shall leave Paris
almost in the instant of receiving the permission.
The campaign begins under unfavorable auspices for Russia. The death of
the Grand Seignior, who was personally disposed for peace, has brought a
young and ardent successor to the throne, determined to push the war to
extremity. Her only ally, the Emperor, is _in articulo mortis_, and the
grand Duke of Tuscany, should he succeed, loves peace and money.
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