The chief credit for the resulting diplomatic triumph, almost as essential as the victory at Yorktown itself to our national well-being, belongs to him, and by his conduct he laid the men of the West under an obligation which they never acknowledged during his lifetime.

[Footnote: It is not the least of Mann Butler's good points that in his "History" he does full justice to Jay.
Another Kentuckian, Mr.Thomas Marshall Green, has recently done the same in his "Spanish Conspiracy."] Jay and Gardoqui.
Shortly after his return to America he was made Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and was serving as such when, in the spring of 1785, Don Diego Gardoqui arrived in Philadelphia, bearing a commission from his Catholic Majesty to Congress.

At this time the brilliant and restless soldier Galvez had left Louisiana and become Viceroy of Mexico, thus removing from Louisiana the one Spaniard whose energy and military capacity would have rendered him formidable to the Americans in the event of war.

He was succeeded in the government of the creole province by Don Estevan Miro, already colonel of the Louisiana regiment.
Gardoqui was not an able man, although with some capacity for a certain kind of intrigue.

He was a fit representative of the Spanish court, with its fundamental weakness and its impossible pretensions.