George Washington actually said...

The importance of this last to the liberty and property of our citizens induces me to urge it on your earliest attention.

I have therefore nominated David Humphreys minister resident from the United States to Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal.

I shall think it a less evil than to disgust a government so friendly and so interesting to us as that of Portugal.

I employed Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who was on the spot, and without giving him any definite character, to enter informally into the conferenc...