I trust,
therefore, I may get it altered on the first occasion which occurs,
and I believe one will soon occur. In the mean time, we do not store a
single drop for re-exportation, as all which comes here is needed
for the consumption of this country; which will alone, according to
appearances, become so considerable as to require all we can produce.
By a letter of the 8th instant, from our bankers, I learn that they had
disposed of bonds enough to pay our June interest, and to replace the
temporary advances made by Mr. Grand, and from a fund placed here by the
State of Virginia. I have desired them, accordingly, to replace these
monies, which had been lent for the moment only, and in confidence of
immediate repayment. They add, that the payment of the June interest
and the news from America, will, as they trust, enable them to place
the remaining bonds of the last year's million. I suppose, indeed, that
there is no doubt of it, and that none would have been expressed, if
those two houses could draw better together than they do. In the mean
time, I hope the treasury board will send an order for so much as may be
necessary for executing the purposes of Congress, as to our captives at
Algiers.
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