We have had the honour of paying you our Respects before informing you of our wishes to extend a flourishing Commerce between our Tuscan State and your united States of America in fact since our first expedition of which your Excellency was inform’d we have dispatch’d three more Ships Two of Six Hundred Tons each and a Brig of 150 Tons with Cargoes of the different articles of our Tuscan growth all entirely our own property and which Ships and Cargoes are now in America and hope will turn out to our advantage as well as that of America, certain it is no State in Europe is better calculated for a flourishing Trade to America than this as we have almost every article Europe furnishes and can take off in Return every American produce, such as Wheat, Tobacco, Flour, Indian Corn, Codfish, Indigo, Wax &c &c. In short our Views ever since the peace have been to promote and extend an advantageous and flourishing Commerce between the Two States and we in particular have greatly enlarged as you will perceive by the abovemention’d Expeditions which are of no small Consequence, this however is only a beginning of what we mean to do as our utmost wishes is to Continue this Commerce which promises to prove so advantageous to both. We know of only one thing that prove prejudicial and be of the least Check to the Trade from America, we mean the Barbary States which must Render your Colonies exposed to their depradations however the danger is not so great as is immagin’d. Our Tuscan Vessels run the same risk yet they Navigate and thank God we very seldom hear of any being taken and in fact our Ships have always gone safe, nevertheless we hope your Wise Administration will endeavour to remove that obstacle so necessary for the preservation of their Navigation and Commerce to those Seas. A hint from your Excellency to Congress may answer the desired effect and be the means of rendering a most extensive and permanent Trade between the Two Countries. We strongly recommend our wishes to your Excellencys attention and have the honour to Subscribe ourselves with all due Respect Your Excellencys Most obedient and most humble Servants