ROBERT MORRIS.
TO GOVERNOR TRUMBULL.
Office of Foreign Affairs, June 12th, 1782.
Sir,
I was honored with your letter of the 23d of May, with both the enclosures, which I laid before Congress, and furnished copies to the Minister of France. The spirit in which your answer to Mr Deane's letter is written, is such as must bring him to some sense of the disgraceful and contemptible part he is acting, and awake in him that remorse, which is the severest punishment of guilt. I shall avail myself of the permission you give me to transmit it to Dr Franklin, since I see that important advantages may result from declaring to Europe your sense, and that of so reputable a body as the Legislature of Connecticut, upon the important points it discusses.
I have the honor to be, &c.
ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON.
GOVERNOR GREENE TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON.
Newport, June 15th, 1782.
Sir,