 accommodations fill the void, there is danger of stagnating & convulsing the business of the City so as to give a shock to Credit. The Direction here are sensible of the danger, but several of them take the intimation from Philadelphia in too strict a sense—& cannot resolve to alleviate the apprehensions of the Bank of New York.
Though this Bank of NY has reduced and is reducing its discounts, there are circumstances of the moment which continue to incline the ballance in favour of the Office, but it is easy to see, taking in the payments of the Government in February, that there will be a natural change and consequently it is every way imprudent to force them.
If the last loan of the Bank of New York to Government had no other use than that which you hint,4 this still was very important. And it is interesting all round that a disposition should exist to repeat similar accommodations. But you easily see how cautious & disaffected spirits are armed against it when they can say “We told you that you would embarrass yourself by your loan to Government” & in truth if this had not been made the Bank of New York would now stand on high ground.
Pray interpose with Mr. Willing to obtain an explanatory letter leaving more clearly the time & manner of accomplishing the Reduction of the present Ballance to their discretion.
I will say nothing more of any anticipated payment—but if this were practicable to the extent of 50 or 100000 Dollars it would be consolatory to the Directors & leave the residue more to your convenience.
Dont derive from this letter any source of alarm. Every thing is sound with both Banks here. I know the state of both. But there is danger that fear and jealousy in the Directors of the Bank of New York may produce evil which it is unnecessary to hazard.5
I shall send you the first opportunity the volume of Reports of Comrs.6
Yrs. truly
A Hamilton
PS Mr Caleb Brewster is a candidate for the Office of first Mate in the Revenue Cutter here. I remember he rendered very meritorious services in the War7 & I am told has been bred a seamen. In these respects he has a good claim. His character otherwise is not known to me. But if it affords no objection I think he will be an eligible man.
It is said Walker8 is to resign. In this case Jonathan Burrall9 wishes to succeed. There cannot you know be a more fit man & he will be intirely acceptable here.
Ol Wolcot Junr Esq
ALS, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
1. Although Wolcott wrote to H on November 17, 1796, his letter dealt with foreign affairs rather than banking matters. On the other hand, Wolcott did write to H concerning the Bank of New York on December 8, 1796.
5. In the margin opposite this paragraph H wrote: “I wish to see your report on Direct taxes.” This report, which is dated December 14, 1796, is printed in ASP description begins American State Papers, Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States (Washington, 1832–1861). description ends, Finance, I, 414–41.
7. Brewster, an ensign in the Fourth New York Regiment at the outset of the American Revolution, was appointed a captain lieutenant in the Continental Artillery on June 23, 1780.
8. Benjamin Walker was the naval officer for the port of New York. For additional information on Walker’s activities, see Robert Morris to H, April 27, 1796.
9. During the American Revolution, Burrall had been assistant to the paymaster general of the Continental Army, assistant paymaster general, and deputy paymaster general. From 1786 to 1789 he was commissioner for settling the accounts of the quartermaster and commissary general departments. In 1792 he became cashier of the New York Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States.Non-oil foreign trade recorded a rise of 27% in the first half of 2021 as compared to the same period...
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Literacy hour is a key part of our day. Throughout the week we take part in grammar, comprehension, writing, spelling and reading activities.
We take part in a focused grammar lesson once per week. We have been learning how to recognise and use nouns verbs and adjectives in our writing. We have created posters displaying our understanding of nouns verbs and adjectives.
We take part in various guided and shared reading sessions throughout the week. We discuss these texts and participate in various comprehension activities including hot seating. We love to use our iPads to complete our Oxford Reading Tree comprehension activities. We use the book creator app to recreate the story, add alternative endings and create character profiles.
This year, we will be studying five different writing genres. We study each genre for six weeks and at the end of this six week cycle the children will be able to create, draft and edit an independent piece of writing.
Our first writing genre was instructional writing. We created instructions for making a milkshake, building a kite and making a gingerbread man. We made sure to use time connectives in our writing and pictures to go with the instructions.
Non chronological report writing!
Our final report was a report on a farm animal of our choice. We independenly researched information on our chosen animal!
Our animal reports!It’s not always possible to get out and about in the wild, sometimes it pays to just stay home. I have spent ages watching the birds go backwards and forwards gathering food, cleaning themselves and basically just doing what birds do. The wood pigeons have only just decided to start nest-building. And the swallows, are there more this year, or do I just notice more?
And bees. So many different bees. A bee was just a bee to me.
One sort of bee.
And another sort of bee, actually there were three different bees on the mock orange. But one flew away without his selfie! Said this wildlife photography was difficult. Nature just doesn’t cooperate.
At least this bee in the honeysuckle stayed put. And then of course it RAINS. We need rain, what can you do,but wait for it to stop and take rain drop pictures. On the Lupin.
On the peony, my best effort. Shortly after this, I did some weeding. Now I have noticed that bees prefer the wildflowers to the garden flowers, says a lot about garden flowers, “Which do you prefer Mrs Bee, vetch or lupin?” “Vetch please”. Sorry Mr E! ( For those who don’t know Mr E favours a city park look with dahlias in neat rows!)
Anyway I was weeding, goose grass. yes it brought me out in a rash, and the garden nemesis bindweed. I disturbed a frog who liked the overgrown wilderness, thank you very much. Don’t know who jumped further me or the frog.
I am beginning to think I won’t survive this challenge, but at least the sun is out again! In case you are wondering about the heat wave and why no mention, I am in catch up mode on blogging about 30 days wild, too busy getting out there in the world!
Sorry to hear nature’s still fighting back. At least the bees didn’t sting you. Doesn’t sound as if I’d last long with your MR E. I’ve done so little weeding, you could probably do your entire 30 day wild in my garden!
Not this time, I trod on a bee in the bedroom before I started the 30 days challenge! I probably could spend 30 days weeding in the garden now.
Me too. It’s gone wild with all the heat and rain.
Always good to see bees thriving! I must try to get some photos of the gorgeous violet carpenter bees we have loads of here – especially now I’ve found out they aren’t aggressive and rarely sting.
Oh a wild life post would be lovely to see, am really getting into this.
Loving all those bee photos!!
Ah thanks, tricky beggars to photo.
I know I have a lot more blurred photos than clear ones!
I wish we had frogs! Instead we have snakes, garters thankfully, but the neighbor found a baby rattlesnake in his yard in May😳. There was quite a conference with the men of the area to see about destruction, etc. As his yard has developed holes (potential dens) They finally agreed to pour gas into the holes followed by a lit match. Don’t know that they got any BB