The magazine of American history with notes and queries . e Mississippi, which Secretary Jaymet with an offer to forbear navigating its waters below the southernboundary of the Republic for a term of twenty or thirty years, but refusedpromptly and firmly to relinquish the right, which the Spanish ministerwould not concede. And here was penned the spirited remonstrance tothe ministry of Great Britain—of which the world knows very little—against what was interpreted as an infraction of the recent treaty with theparent power ; and the demand for the immediate removal of British gar-risons from se
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . e Mississippi, which Secretary Jaymet with an offer to forbear navigating its waters below the southernboundary of the Republic for a term of twenty or thirty years, but refusedpromptly and firmly to relinquish the right, which the Spanish ministerwould not concede. And here was penned the spirited remonstrance tothe ministry of Great Britain—of which the world knows very little—against what was interpreted as an infraction of the recent treaty with theparent power ; and the demand for the immediate removal of British gar-risons from several specified military posts on the frontiers. A secretact was also passed by Congress giving discretionary power to theSecretary of State for one year, to inspect letters in the post office—thesupposed motive being to discover treachery, if any existed, in the nature WALL STREET IN HISTORY 413 of instructions from England to the commanders of the garrisons. Thereis no record, however, to prove that the extraordinary authority was SIR JOHN TEMPLE. First Consul-General from Great Britain to the United States after its Independence was Recognized. The presence of Congress brightened social as well as business Street was the great center of interest, and was brilliant with showilydressed ladies and gentlemen, in all the colors of the rainbow, every sun-shiny afternoon. Brissot de Warville found here every English fashion—the richest silks, satins, velvets, gauzes, hats, and borrowed , he tells us, were rare, but very elegant. The diplomatic anddistinguished foreign personages, together with the concourse ofstrangers, he says, contribute much to extend the ravages of he thought the inhabitants preferred the splendor of wealth, and theshow of enjoyment, to a simplicity of manners and the pure pleasures result- 414 WALL STREET IN HISTORY ing therefrom. He informs us that it cost more to live in New York than inFrance, an
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