Some french Gentlemen have projected and propose to Messrs. Franklin Adams and Lee to purchase and convey to America very great quantities of goods and wares for the use of people of the 13. united States, at the Lowest rate; otherwise to pay with their money the same wares or goods purchased by the hon. Deputies of Congress, and receive in exchange the same value in money papers, or bills of the Congress, if this contract is agreable to the said Deputies these freng Gentlemen having no benefit in view but the honour and interest of liberty and humanity and her generous defensors Actuellement que la France a etabli un Consul pour avoir soin des affaires de commerce de la nation en Amerique, il est a presumer que les Etats unis en etabliront incessamment en France, auquel cas je prie ces Messieurs de se souvenir que j’ai eu l’honneur de leur en proposer un pour la Normandie.