Accept my thanks for your interesting Letter of the 19 March which ha I was immediately communicated to Congress—I consider it as a new Proof of your ^that^ constant and useful Attention to our affairs ^from^ which the United States have so often derived both Pleasure and advantage—Let me request the continuance of your Correspondence, and be assured that it will always give me Pleasure to communicatinge ^to^ You such Intelligence respecting american occurrences as may appear interesting—

Dn. Diego Gardoqui is arrived & has been recd. ^so much^ in the Spirit of Friendship that I hope he his Master & himself will be well pleased—our negociations with him will soon commence, and I sincerely wish that the Issue of them may be satisfactory to both countries—To prepare for War, and ^yet^ be tenacious of Peace with all the world is I think our true Interest—I wish Mr Gardoquis Instructions may be sufficiently extensive to admit of a Settlement of our Boundaries &ca. on Principles which alone can create and perpetuate Cordiality.1

The British shew no Disposition to evacuate our frontier Posts—What their real Designs are can at present be only inferred and conjectured from appearances; and ^present^ appearances induce a Suspicion that they mean to hold them—Mr Adams The Letters we expect from Mr Adams will probably remove all Doubts on that Head—It is certain that they pay great Attention to the Indians, and give great Encouragement to Emigrants from us—Their Expectations from the latter Circumstance will fail them. I wish that every acre of Ground in they hold in Am[eric]a was settled by u natives of the united States—They would transplant their Love of Liberty, their Spirit of Enterprize, and their Attachments to Republicanist^m^ into Countries in which it is our Interest that such Plants should be propagated and flourish—In Time they will bear Fruit, and we shall gather them.2

The commercial Class of our People sensibly feel the Restraints on our Trade, and ^look^ up to Congress for a Remedy—good will come out of Evil—These Discontents nourish fœderal Ideas—When ^As^ Trade diminishes Agriculture must suffer, and hence it will happen that our Yeomen will become as desirous of encreasing the Powers of Congress as our Merchants now are—All Foreign Restrictions, Partial Exclusions and unneighbourly ordinances will tend to press us together and strengthen our Bands of union—

I send you herewith a number of Gazettes, from which you will discern something of the Spirit which prevails—

Congress go on doing Business with great Concord Temper and Harmony—. I enclose a Copy of the ordinance for regulating the Land Office—3. They are now on the Subject of Requisitions, and I flatter myself that as the highest Respect for good Faith prevails in the House, that Exertions will be made by the States to preserve the public Credit—

Govr. Livingston has was appointed for the Hague, but declining that Place, Govr Rutledge has been elected for it.4 His answer is not has not yet reached—

When my dear Sir will your Court send us a minister—Our having one at Versailles affords Reason to expect one from thence—We The Report of Monsr. De Moustiers coming over in that Capacity dies away, an from the little I saw of him at Paris I am inclined to think he would be an agreable as well as an able minister—5

Mrs. Jay joins me in requesting the Favor of You to present our compliments and best wishes to the Marchioness With great Esteem and Regard I am Dr Sir your most obt Servt.