our carriage is come, and we set out, in the morning, for washington. I intended to have been with you to day, but I have been immersed, thro the whole day, in the most interesting business, & have only, the remaining hour or two, to pack up my papers here,1 for the journey. I fear I have mislaid the memo: which I took, of the person, you wish’d to have appointed, consul in one of the ports of France. Be so kind as send me his name, & a note of any thing else in which you take an interest.   with great respect & sincere regard I am dear Sir yr friend