I am at present at Bath with my Dearest Sister whom I have found as well as I could have expected, and I hope with reasonable hope of recovery in time. I have seen in London the ministry and hope things will go well with them. I am sure all is right and firm. The chief part of the cabinet ministers are out of town, but there will be a full cabinet held in a few days, in which a specific proposition in the nature of a temporary convention will be given in instructions to me. I imagine nearly upon the ground of my memorial of 19 May 1783 which I delivered to the American Ministers viz American ships not to bring foreign manufactures into G Britain nor to trade directly between the British West Indies and G Britain. All the rest to be as before the war. I imagine that something to their effect will be their determination. And if it should be so I should hope not to meet with difficulty on your parts. I want to see some specific beginning. As to my farther proposition respecting the trade between Gt Britain and the british West Indies, I doubt whether any such can be discussed before the meeting of Parliament. I wish to look forward not only to the continuation of peace between our two Countries but to the improvement of reconciliation into Alliance, and therefore I wish the two parties to be disposed to accommodate each other without the strict measure by weights and scales as between aliens and strangers actuated towards each other by no other principle but cold and equalizing indifference. Friendly dispositions presumed have the fairest chance of being realized but if we set out presuming against them the good which might have happened may be prevented. Pray remember me to your three collegues and all friends I am &c