I
was much indebted to M. Minaudier, for a good equipment from Agde, and
unceasing attentions to that place; for which I was indebted to your
recommendations as well as to his goodness.
I am honored with your father's letters of June the 30th; and as he does
not read English, and I cannot write French, I must beg leave to answer
him through you. I thank him for his hints on the subject of tobacco.
I am now pressing for arrangements as to that article, to take place on
the expiration of Mr. Morris's contract, and the order of Bernis.
What form this business will take, or what will be the nature of the
arrangements, or whether there will be any, I am as yet unable to say. I
will take care to inform you the moment there is a decision.
The public business with which Mr. Barclay has been charged rendering
it necessary for him to repair to Congress, and the interest of his
creditors, his family, and himself requiring his return to America, he
has departed for that country. I know nothing of Mr. Barclay's affairs
in this country. He has good possessions in America, which, he assured
me, were much more than sufficient to satisfy all the demands against
him.
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