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The New York Packet
New York, New York County, New York
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French Charge d'Affaires Sieur Otto writes to Mr. Jay denying rumors of an exchange of Louisiana for a French possession in the West Indies, quoting Comte de Vergennes' dispatch stating it was never in question.
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"Several members of Congress having enquired of me with a degree of earnestness, whether the news concerning the pretended exchange with Spain in the southern part of this Continent was well founded; I cannot answer that question better than by communicating to you the following passage in a dispatch from Comte de Vergennes, of the 25th of August last.
"The exchange of Louisiana for a French possession in the West-Indies has never been in question, and if any thing should be again said of it, you will be pleased to contradict it formally."
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Louisiana
Event Date
1st Dec. Last
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the exchange of louisiana for a french possession in the west-indies has never been in question, and it should be formally contradicted if mentioned again.
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Sieur Otto, Charge des Affaires of France, responds to inquiries from Congress members about rumors of an exchange with Spain in the southern part of the continent by sharing a dispatch from Comte de Vergennes denying that the exchange of Louisiana for a French possession in the West-Indies was ever in question.