at should occur. The refusal of the _Chatelet_ and
_Grande Chambre_ of Paris to act in the new character assigned them,
continues. Many of the _grandes bailliages_ accept, some conditionally,
some fully. This will facilitate greatly the measures of government, and
may possibly give them a favorable issue. The parliament of Toulouse,
considering the edicts as nullities, went on with their business. They
have been exiled in consequence. Monsieur de St. Priest left Paris for
the Hague, on the 23rd. I mention this fact, because it denotes the
acquiescence of this government in the late revolution there. A second
division of a Spanish fleet will put to sea soon. Its destination
not declared. Sweden is arming to a greater extent than was at first
supposed. From twelve so sixteen sail of the line are spoken of, on good
grounds, Denmark, for her own security, must arm in proportion to this.
T. J.

LETTER CXXXVII.--TO JOHN BROWN, May 26,1788

TO JOHN BROWN.

Paris, May 26,1788.

Dear Sir,

It was with great pleasure I saw your name on the roll of Delegates, but
I did not know you had actually come onto New-York, till Mr. Paradise
informed me of it. Your removal from Carolina to Kentucky was not an
indifferent event to me. I wish to see that country in the hands of
people well disposed, who know the value of the connection between that
and the maritime States, and who wish to cultivate it. I consider their
happiness as bound up together, and that every measure should be taken,
which may draw the bands of union tighter. It will be an efficacious one
to receive them into Congress, as I perceive they are about to desire
to this be added an honest and disinterested conduct in Congress, as
to every thing relating to them, we may hope for a perfect harmony. The
navigation of the Mississippi was, perhaps, the strongest trial to which
the justice of the federal government could be put. If ever they thought
wrong about it, I trust they have got to rights. I should think it
proper for the western country to defer pushing their right to that
navigation to extremity, as long as they can do without it, tolerably;
but that the moment it becomes absolutely necessary for them, it will
become the duty of the maritime states to push it to every extremity,
to which they would their own right of navigating the Chesapeake, the
Delaware, the Hudson, or any other water. A time of peace will not
be the surest for obtaining this object. Tho