Papers of John Adams, volume 9

From Edmund Jenings

To William Carmichael

To the President of Congress, No. 38, 7 April 1780 JA Huntington, Samuel President of Congress

1780-04-07

To the President of Congress, No. 38, 7 April 1780 Adams, John Huntington, Samuel President of Congress
To the President of Congress, No. 38

Paris, 7 April 1780. RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 425–431) printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 3:599–602.

In this letter, received by Congress on 19 Feb. 1781, Adams provided accounts of the arrival of Russian couriers at The Hague on 30 March with Catherine II's declaration of an armed neutrality and an invitation to the Dutch to join (see JA to the president of Congress, 10 April, No. 40, below); the determination of the Turks to resist belligerent depredations on their ships or the vessels of other nations trading with Turkish ports; and the Russian reaction to the British attack on the Dutch convoy under the protection of Adm. van Bylandt.

RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 425–431). printed: (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 3:599–602.)