I have already written a long Letter to you by this Vessel,1 and should have continued the Details of our subsequent Proceedings, had my Health admitted of the necessary application.

You will receive from us a joint Letter, with a Copy of the Preliminaries.2 I shall therefore omit making any Remarks on them.

Before I left Spain, and by Letters since my arrival here, I desired Mr. Carmichael to make out and transmit the public accounts.3 Our negotiations with that Court are at a Stand. The Count [d’Aranda],4 either has not, or does not choose to shew me, a Commission to treat. He is exceedingly civil, and frequent Visits pass between us.—5

It gives me pleasure to inform you that perfect Unanimity has hitherto prevailed among your Commissioners here; and I do not recollect that, since we began to negotiate with Mr. Oswald, there has been the least Division or opposition between us. Mr. Adams was particularly useful respecting the Eastern Boundary, and Doctor Franklin’s Firmness and Exertions on the Subject of the Tories did us much Service. I enclose herewith a Copy of a Letter he wrote about that matter to Mr. Oswald.6 It had much Weight, and is written with a Degree of acuteness and Spirit seldom to be met with in Persons of his Age. I have the Honor to be, with great Regard and Esteem, Dear Sir, &c.