I have the Honor to acquaint you, that I left Paris the 12th. of July, and agreeable to the Permission of Congress, am returned to my Country. Mr. Jefferson had recovered his Health, and was much esteemed and respected there. Our joint Letters have already informed you of our late Proceedings, to which I have nothing to add, except that the Last Act I did as Minister Plenipotentiary for making Treaties, was to sign with him, two Days before I came away, the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce that had been agreed on with Prussia, and which was to be carried to the Hague by Mr. Short, there to be signed by Baron Thulemier on the Part of the King, who, without the least Hesitation had approved and conceded to the new humane Articles porposed by Congress. Mr. Short was also to call at London for the Signature of Mr. Adams, who, I learnt when at Southampton, was well received at the british Court. The Captain Lamb, who, in a Letter of yours to Mr. Adams, was said to be coming to us with Instructions respecting Morocco, had not appeared, nor had we heard any Thing of him; so nothing had been done by us in that Treaty. I left the Court of France in the same friendly Disposition towards the United States that we have all along experienced, though concerned to find that our Credit is not better supported in the Payment of the Interest Money due on our Loans, which, in Case of another War must be, they think, extreemely prejudicial to us, and indeed may contribute to draw on a War the sooner, by affording our Enemies the encouraging Confidence, that those who take so little Care to pay, will not again find it easy to borrow. I received from the King at my Departure, the Present of his Picture set round with Diamonds, usually given to Ministers Plenipotentiary who have signed any Treaties with that Court, and it is at the Disposition of Congress, to whom be pleased to present my dutiful Respects. I am, with great Esteem and Regard, &c.