Mr: Carnes, an American Merchant settled at Nantes, who has already presented your Excellency with a Petition requesting un Arrêt de Sur-seance, informs me that it cannot be complied with unless he first obtains the Consentment of a third of his Creditors; that in order to do this, his Presence is necessary at Nantes; but that his Liberty will be in danger if he has not a Personal Security from Government. I therefore take the Liberty of requesting your Excellency to afford him a Sauf-Conduitte ’till he can obtain the Consentment of the Majority of his Creditors, to his being favour’d with Lettres de Sur-Seance. I have the honour to be, with great Respect Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble Servant