I received the Letter you did me the honour of writing to me the 18th. of March last and I immediately made an Application to the Society of the Cincinnati for what you desired in favour of M. your Brother, and I have no doubt of its being sent to him.

I had before received from our common Friend l’Abbé de la Roche your Order for Seeds, and had bespoke them of the Botanist, who promis’d to procure them in the following Autumn. He has now done it, and I send them by this Ship, and Mary, Capt. William Reed, bound to Bordeaux. The Box is addressed to the Care of Messrs Johnston, Barton and Barry, Merchants there. By applying to that House you will receive it. The Charge is two Guineas and a half, of £2. 12s. 6d. Sterling, which you my pay to Mr. Grand, Banker in Paris, for my Account. Enclos’d is the Botanists Bill and List.

Your Order for framed Building cannot be executed here, our Workmen not being in the way of doing such Business. But I am told it is done at Boston in the State of Massachusetts, and probably if you send exact Plans and Directions to the French Consul there, he may be able to accomplish it for you.

If in any thing else I can serve you here, it will be a Pleasure to receive your Commands. I am, with the greatest Respect; My Lord, Your Grace’s most obedient and most humble Servant