 I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the 10th of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to call for half the amount of my last draft, and I did not expect to be thought extravagant, when, on the 16th current, I doubled that demand....  Commodore Paul Jones - Page 120by Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1900 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...my bills ; the more extraordinary, as I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the tenth of January last ; whereby I then seemed entitled to...doubled that demand. Could this indignity be kept secret 1 should disregard it. And tfiough it is already public in Brest, and in the fleet , as it affects... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...of my bilk ; the more extraordinary, as I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the 10th of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to...affects only my private credit, I 'will not complain. I cannot, however, be silent when I find the public credit involved in the same disgrace. I conceive... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 374 pages
...my bills ; the more extraordinary, as I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the 10th of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to...not expect to be thought extravagant, when, on the 1 6th current, I doubled that demand. Could this indignity be kept secret I should disregard it ; and,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 572 pages
...my bills ; the more extraordinary, as I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the 10th of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to...fleet, as it affects only my private credit I will not " London, August 4<A, 1789. " MONSIEUR LE CHETALIER PAUL JONES, A PARIS. " SIR, — I received the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 578 pages
...made use of your letter of credit of the 10th of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to oall for half the amount of my last draft, and I did not...fleet, as it affects only my private credit I will not " London, August 4tk, 1789. " MONSIBUR LE CHXVALIZR PAUL JONES, A PARIS. " SIR,—I received the letter... | |
 | John Paul Jones - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - 1855 - 560 pages
...my bills ; the more extraordinary, as I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the 10th of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to...fleet, as it affects only my private credit I will not " London, August 4<A, 17S9. " MONSIEUR LE CHEVALIER PAUL JONES, A PARIS. " SIR, — I received the... | |
 | 1907 - 362 pages
...of my bills; the more extraordinary, as I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the loth of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to...not expect to be thought extravagant, when, on the i6th current, I doubled that demand. Could this indignity be kept secret I should disregard it; and,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing - Admirals - 1907 - 350 pages
...of my bills; the more extraordinary, as I have not yet made use of your letter of credit of the loth of January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to...not expect to be thought extravagant, when, on the i6th current, I doubled that demand. Could this indignity be kept secret I should disregard it; and,... | |
 | M. Mac Dermot Crawford - 1913 - 552 pages
...not yet made use of your letter of credit of the zoth January last, whereby I then seemed entitled to half the amount of my last draft, and I did not expect to be thought extravagant when on the 1 6th current I doubled that demand. Could this indignity be kept secret I should disregard it; and... | |
 | Lewis Frank Tooker - Biography & Autobiography - 1916 - 240 pages
...inclose copies. Three posts have already arrived here since Comte d'Orvilliers showed me the answer he received from the minister to the letter which...affects only my private credit I will not complain. I cannot, however, be silent when I find the public credit involved in the same disgrace. I conceive... | |
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