The 4th article of the instructions of congress is in PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 43 vols. description ends , 7:267, and also printed in The Friend of Peace, vol. 2, no. 6, 32. The 1785 treaty with prussia, quoted by you, is in Miller, Treaties description begins Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and other International Acts of the United States of America, 1931–48, 8 vols. description ends , 2:162–84. It was based on a model treaty that TJ drafted the previous year (PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 43 vols. description ends , 7:463–90). For the specific provision against privateering, see PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 43 vols. description ends , 7:486; Miller, Treaties description begins Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and other International Acts of the United States of America, 1931–48, 8 vols. description ends , 2:178–9; and North American Review 11 (new ser., 2) (1820): 187. The letter quoted in the memorial was Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785, the concluding paragraph of which called for the elimination of privateering (DLC: Franklin Papers; [John Gallison], A Proposed Memorial to the Congress of the United States [(Boston, 1819)], possibly Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 11 [no. 689], 6). For Franklin’s still earlier attacks on privateering, see Leonard W. Labaree and others, eds., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1959– ), 37:609–10, 617–20; 38:444–5, 584–5; 39:569–70.