RC (DLC); 2 p.; in French; endorsed. FC (Dumas Papers, Rijksarchief, The Hague). Recorded in SJL as received 20 Nov. 1787. Enclosure: Dumas to John Jay, same date, stating that the reigning system will ruin the province because of its inability to restrain the disorders which occur everywhere; rests his cause, his honor, and his interests with God and Congress (FC in Dumas Papers, Rijksarchief, The Hague; translation printed in Dipl. Corr., 1783–89 description begins The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America, from the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace… to the Adoption of the Constitution, Washington, Blair & Rives, 1837, 3 vol. description ends , iii, 597–9).