Mr. Jay presents his Compliments to his Exy. Dr. Franklin, and agreable to his Request has the Honour of returningherewith the Letters transmitted in the Doctor’s Letter of the 21st of November last, Those Letters with others on the same Subject were laid before Congress, and had it not been for the Act which confines their Appointment of Consul, to Citizens, there is no doubt but that Congress would most readily have comply’d with Sir Edward Newenham’s Request.