The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
By Subject
FOREIGN RELATIONS / BRITAIN
I have to acknowledge your favor of the 9th, and to thank you for the
political information it contained. Reading the newspapers but little
and that little but as the romance of the day, a word of truth now and
then comes like the drop of water on the tongue of Dives. If the
British ministry are changing their policy towards us, it is because
their nation, or rather the city of London, which is the nation to
them, is shaken as usual, by the late reverses in Spain.
to James Madison, 19 April 1809
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