It will be under the care of M. la Croix,
a passenger, who, if he does not find you in New York, will carry it to
Virginia, and send it to Richmond. Another copy, in a separate box,
goes for Currie. I pay here all charges to New York. What may occur
afterwards, I desire him to ask either of you or Currie, as either will
pay for the other; or to draw on me for them.
My letters to Mr. Jay will have informed you of the objects which
carried me to England: and that the principal one, the treaty with
Portugal, has been accomplished. Though we were unable to procure any
special advantages in that, yet we thought it of consequence to insure
our trade against those particular checks and discouragements, which it
has heretofore met with there. The information as to the Barbary States,
which we obtained from Abdrahaman the Tripoline ambassador, was also
given to Mr. Jay. If it be right, and the scale of proportion between
those nations, which we had settled, be also right, eight times the sum
required by Tripoli will be necessary to accomplish a peace with the
whole; that is to say, about two hundred and forty thousand guineas.
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