I have the honor to acquaint your Excellencies that my first care on my arrival in Europe from Africa was to acquaint your Envoy at the court of France of the motive of my commission, as per the copies herewith of my two letters 15th July and 25th November 1783. I prevailed on the Emperor of Morocco to conclude the peace with the Congress Sovereign of the thirteen United States of North America, for which purpose he had delivered me a Packet directed to your excellencies Ministers at the court of Versailles, but receiving no Answer from them on such an important affair after the proposals that were made to His Imperial Majesty by Robert Montgomery Esquire your consul at Alicant per his letter dated the 4th Janry 1783, I could not determine to undertake (without a certainty of success) a voyage of 1400 miles, although it would have been very agreeable to me to conclude to the satisfaction of both parties an affair that was left to my care by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Morocco, who after waiting so long your determination on such an important subject ordered his cruisers to detain the american vessels, and in consequence on the 11th of Octr the Brig Betsey Captain James    bound from this place to Boston was stopped and brought to the port of Tanger. Next month I intend to go back to the court of Morocco, and your Excellencys may be assured that I will continue my endeavours to bring to a happy end this affair, and if possible to induce His Majesty to give contrary orders to his cruisers regarding the American vessels, not doubting to be able to conclude soon a lasting treaty of peace agreeable to the proposals that may in future be made by the Sovereign Congress of the United Provinces of North America—And to convince you of my desire to serve your Excellencies on this occasion, I write this day to His Majesty at large on the subject assuring him that you have always the same good intention for a treaty of peace which would habe been already concluded only for the multitude of affairs that the Congress has had on hands for some time; And I will take on myself the motive of the delay that has been the cause of the detention of a final determination of the Congress, which is the only mean that remains to satisfy in some measure my master the Emperor of Morocco. I remain with great respect Sirs Your most obedient and Most humble servant