“A message from Paul Jones that he is dying.
“I go thither and make his will.... Send for a Notary, and leave him struggling with his enemy.”
The American Minister to France left Paul Jones struggling with death!
Left him alone with a French Notary, and went away.
To do what?
To “dine with Lord Gower and Lady Sutherland”!
The American Minister knew that Paul Jones was dying, for he says so.
After the dinner with the English Lord and Lady, does the American Minister hasten back to the bedside of the fellow-countryman whom he had left “struggling with his enemy”?
By no means.
He goes to the Louvre to look at the paintings; and then takes Talleyrand’s mistress with him to Jones’s lodging.