ave passed through it to the public, yet the
good have preponderated immensely.

June the 7th, 1793. Mr. Beckley, who has returned from New York within
a few days, tells me that, while he was there, Sir John Temple, Consul
General of the northern States for Great Britain showed him a letter
from Sir Gregory Page Turner, a member of parliament for a borough in
Yorkshire, who, he said, had been a member for twenty-five years, and
always confidential for the ministers in which he permitted him to read
particular passages of the following purport: that the government was
well apprized of the predominancy of the British interest in the United
States; that they considered Colonel Hamilton, Mr. King, and Mr.
Smith of South Carolina, as the main supports of that interest; that
particularly, they considered Colonel Hamilton, and not Mr. Hammond as
their effective minister here; that if the anti-federal interest (that
was his term) at the head of which they considered Mr. Jefferson to be
should prevail, these gentlemen had secured an asylum to themselves
in England.' Beckley could not understand whether they had secured it
themselves* or whether they were only notified that it was secured
to them. So that they understand that they may go on boldly in their
machinations to change the government, and if they should be overset
and choose to withdraw, they will be secure of a pension in England, as
Arnold, Deane, &c. had. Sir John read passages of a letter (which he did
not put into Beckley's hand, as he did the other) from Lord Grenville,
saying nearly the same things. This letter mentions Sir John, that
though they had divided the Consul-Generalship, and given the southern
department to Bond, yet he Sir John, was to retain his whole salary.
[By this it would seem, as if, wanting to use Bond, they had covered his
employment with this cloak.] Mr. Beckley says that Sir John Temple is a
strong republican. I had a proof of his intimacy with Sir John in this
circumstance. Sir John received his new commission of Consul General for
the northern department, and, instead of sending it through Mr. Hammond,
got Beckley to enclose it to me for his exequatur I wrote to Sir John
that it must come through Mr Hammond enclosing it back to him. He
accordingly then sent it to Mr. Hammond.

[* In the margin is written, by Mr. Jefferson; 'Impossible
as to Hamilton; he was far above that.]

In conversation with the President to-day, and spe