Your Excellency’s Favor of the 5 th July last, with the papers therewith enclosed, were delivered to me on the 29 th . ult o : by Major Franks whom the procrastination of the minister still obliges me to detain . The new commissions ^ with ^ which Congress have honored me, argue a degree of confidence, which demands my warmest acknowlegments, and which so far as it may be founded on an opinion...
My letter of the 25 th April last by M r ; Toscan informed Congress that on the 30 th day of January preceding, I had the honour of receiving their letters of the 6 th . & 17 October 1780 the latter of which states particularly, and ably, the right of the United States to the free navigation of the river Mississippi, and enumerates the various reasons which induce them to decline relinquishing...
Major Franks delivered me the Despatches committed to his Care, on the 30 th . of August. He set out for France the 5 th Inst. My Letters by him to your Excellency will account for his remaining here so long. I also beg Leave to refer to them for other more interesting particulars. Congress will doubtless be informed that I have refused to accept some of their Bills. As the Enemies of America...