Discusses French Affairs, New Bank
Document 1796Refers to dealings with France and actions with the US Senate and House in response. Discusses business with the new bank.
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Annap[olis] [undecipherable] 28th [undecipherable] 179[undecipherable]
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I am [undecipherable: obliged] to you for your [undecipherable] the communications made by Mr Adet to our Government — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and indeed all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — and [I] candidly [undecipherable] meddling — that ought to be frowned out of [undecipherable: countenance] — He has lost all character [undecipherable] demonstrated that good will [undecipherable: felt] for his Government & the [undecipherable: people] of France by most people here — fortunately [undecipherable: however] his appeal is made at a time when [undecipherable: public] [undecipherable: opinion] is [undecipherable: too] wide matured for any injury to result from such conduct — The answer of our Senate & the House of D[e]legates
[undecipherable] to [undecipherable] address, which I make you, [undecipherable: as] an indirect allusion to Mr Adet's communication — [undecipherable: our] Legislature [undecipherable] has been very much employed in local [undecipherable] matters — Colo Howard is appointed a [undecipherable] to W[undecipherable] Potts [undecipherable: resigned] — in the Senate [undecipherable: of] the [undecipherable] it [undecipherable: probable] his place in our State Senate will be filled by some character from Baltimore & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is talked off — We shall have in our Treasury after meeting the demands of the State nearly £35000 — some struggle will [undecipherable: take] place here [undecipherable] is to be [undecipherable: disposed] [undecipherable: of] The Agent & his party are for [undecipherable: vesting] it in B[ank] Stock — with an eye to the commission & to prevent Baltimore drawing any benefit
from the use of it — others are for [undecipherable: taking] Shares in the New Bank — This [undecipherable] [undecipherable] open a kind of Shop — that [undecipherable: too] is [undecipherable: well] calculated to promote the interest of [undecipherable] in this Town — [undecipherable] its [undecipherable: right] home — the door was [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Bank Stock is yet in [undecipherable] by the State in the [undecipherable] in [undecipherable: pursuit] of it its [undecipherable: probable] [undecipherable: Pulteney] under the direction of its [undecipherable] [undecipherable: McChear] will [undecipherable: have] the management of the [undecipherable] in [undecipherable: General] — I shall be obliged to you to write me the Cur[rent] price of 6 [undecipherable: P. C.] Stock & the [undecipherable: probable] demand for it — this information I want to aid the application of our Money [undecipherable] places in the New Bank
With great respect [undecipherable: I am]
[undecipherable: Your] Ob[edien]t [undecipherable] P. Key
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Refers to dealings with France and actions with the US Senate and House in response. Discusses business with the new bank.
Date
11/28/1796
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1796112840301
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
Philip Key
Senate
House
House of Delegates
Colonel Howard
Mr. Potts
Notable locations
Annapolis
France
Baltimore

