I hope your Excellency will allow us to represent to you, that during the war-time, we in an indirect manner loaded several Ships with a considerable quantity of warlike implements, bound for America, and which probably reached their several Ports. Now the Peace is wholly concluded, we do not doubt, but there will be Military Magazins or Arsenals settled in the different Provinces of America, which may require at the Same time a provision of proper new arms. And as the iron of our Country is of an excellent quality, and very fit for casting of arms; as likewise our Manufactury of this Kind is one of the best, and most renowned in the World; this enables us to make your Excellency the following proposals:

In case that the United States of America should determin sooner or later to provide themselves with proper new arms either for their Arsenals or their Troops; we do humbly offer you our Service to fit you with such from hence. It were requisite that your Excellency wou’d be pleased to send us the name, the Character and habitation of the party we shou’d have to deal with, concerning the exportation of what may be ordered. Besides we will point out a middling port to facilitate this Intercourse. In order to this we would propose to your Excellency John Frederick Droop of hamborough. There might be also sent from America thither a Model of arms moulded In the manner the United States shou’d desire to have ’em. The said Frederick Droop wou’d forward it to us, and after the view of said Model, we might determin the positive price which we shou’d be able to deliver ’em for at Franco hambourg. We will also deliver them at hambourg at free cost, Since from thence they might be embarked to the place They are designed for the Town where we keep our Manufactury is situated in the Province of Hennberg, and belongs to his Electroral highness of Saxony, who has sent into France as his Ambassador, Mr. Schönfeld actually residing at Paris, and by whose hands this letter is to be delivered to your Excellency. If, besides the article of arms, there were some other undertakings, as we flatter ourselves there may be, for America; your Excellency might have an opportunity of conferring about it at the next interview with the said Mr. De Schönfeld. However, we warrant the goodness and solidity of the arms we may hereafter provide you with. We beg your Excellency will honour with your Protection our Manufactury of Arms. We likewise recommend ourselves to your favour, and will incessantly offer up to heaven our prayers and good wishes for the continuance of your precious health, and remain with the most profound submission, and most inviolate respect Your Excellency’s The most humble and most obedient Servant