I thank you sincerely for your [obli?] friendly Letter of the 27 Augt.1 and for the obliging attention you have paid to the Commission which I requested you to execute.

I wish your Design of shipping ^sending^ the Glass by the Vessel which is to bring over Doctr Franklin’s Baggage may take place, for my windows are now ready to recieve it. If no opportunity should offer directly from Havre, could it not be sent by water from thence to L Orient, and there put on Board the french Packet? But you understand these Matters better than I do, and I am persuaded that you will give such orders about it as may be most expedient—

I view the Discontents of Ireland in the same Point of Light that you do, and if they tend to as they evidently do to continue ^prolong^ the Peace of Europe, they are not much to be regretted by other Nations, however they may affect the Policy of Britain—

The affairs of this Country are gradually settling & regulating. Law and Government prevails throughout and tho much yet ^still^ remains to be done, yet it is more surprizing that our Situation is not worse, than that it is not better. Congress has in strong Terms required of the States all the Supplies necessary to enable them to fulfil their Engagements; and the prevailing opinion among the People is that the Faith of the united States ought to be preserved inviolate—

The State of our Commerce calls for arrangemts which Congress are not yet authorized to make—but the as the Necessity of giving them such authority becomes more and more evident, it is probable that the People will daily become more and more inclined to confer it. They are not pleased with Britain, and have [little?] but continue steadfast in their attachment to France, whose Relaxations respecting the West India Trade made a very lively and agreable Impression upon them—It is much to be regretted that the local Interested Views of some certain Districts in France should oppose the Establishmt of a liberal & natural System of Commerce which tends so much to bind the two Countries to each other—

You have doubtless heard that our Friend Dr. Franklin is now at the Head of the Govt of Pennsylvania. Parties still run high in that State and I fear the Doctr. will not find it easy to reconcile them, especially as their animosity arises from the opposite opinions which they entertain of their Constitution or form of Govt which the is extremely disagreable to one Party and warmly supported patronized of ^by^ the other:

My Family are all in good Health—Mrs. Jay assures you and yours of her attachment and Regard—With great and sincere Esteem I am Dr Sr your obliged & obt Servt