Paris, November 14, 1788.
Sir,
In my letter of December the 21st, 1787, I had the honor of
acknowledging the receipts of your two favors of July the 27th, 1787,
which had come to my hands December the 19th, and brought with them
my full powers for treating on the subject of the consular convention.
Being then much engaged in getting forward the _Arret_ which came out
the 29th of December, and willing to leave some interval between
that act, and the solicitation of a reconsideration of our consular
convention, I had declined mentioning it, for some time, and was just
about to bring it on the carpet, when it became necessary for me to go
to Amsterdam. Immediately after my return, which was about the last
of April, I introduced the subject to the Count de Montmorin, and have
followed it unremittingly, from that time. The office of Marine, as well
as that of Foreign Affairs, being to be consulted in all the stages of
the negotiation, has protracted its conclusions till this time: it is
at length signed this day, and I have now the honor to enclose the
original, for the ratification of Congress.
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