The Life of John Adams, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life of John Adams, Vol. 2

There is reason to infer that all these things com bined to originate the experiment upon Mr. Adams, whose dissatisfaction with Count de Vergennes, not entirely unknown in Holland, might have reached the ears of the king. Mr. Adams, apparently quite aware of the delicacy of his position, in agreeing to a confer ence proposed by Mr. Digges, at Amsterdam, on the zoth of March, attached the condition that it should not be conducted without a witness, and that he should be at liberty to communicate all that might pass to Dr. Franklin and the Count de Vergennes; a wise precau tion, which proved not without effect in dispelling from the mind of the latter the suspicions of British tenden cies which Gerard had first implanted and which subse quent contentions had nourished. The motive assigned by Count de Vergennes for Digges's mission is singular.

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