6.
JA relished this praise well enough to convey it, in varying language but always bad
French, to others; see, for example, his letter to Edmund Jenings,
28 April (
Adams Papers), quoted in
JA, Diary and Autobiography,
3:5. The Spanish minister plenipotentiary at The Hague was Sebastián de Llano y de la
Quadra, Conde de Sanafcé and Vizconde de Llano
(Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder, 3:435).