Gouverneur Morris to John Jay, 20 March 1780

Phila: 20 th . March 1780

D r Jay.

The Disaster you met with and the Delay occasioned by it will make all my Letters old before you see them–€” Your Note from Martinique the Day after your arrival shuts my Mouth as to any Thing worth your knowing. 1 This Letter will go by a circuitous Rout but I trust a safe one. I shall therefore mention that Congress have anvilled out another new System of Finance the Plain English of which is a Breach of their Resolution to stop the Press. 2 After this the public Faith is to be pledged &c a . on all which I shall make no Comment. In General I tell you that it wont do and Money must therefore be had in Europe for however there may be a Sufficiency in the Country that is of little Importance unless there could be ways and Means discovered to draw it out. I early foresaw what hath now happened and as early predicted it and as early labored to prevent it and according to Custom was answered with a Compliment to my fine Imagination God help the knowing ones. Adieu my Dear Friend.

Gouv. Morris

Remember me to yours.