Passy, April 24. 1782.—
I find that I have Powers to treat and conclude in the
Affair you did me the honour yesterday of proposing to
me. I am ready therefore to confer with your Excellency
on the Subject at any Time and Place you shall please to
appoint. With great & sincere Esteem & Respect I
have the honour to be Sir, Your Excellency’s most
obedient & most humble Servant
Answer to the Question put to me yesterday at Court by
the Swedish Ambassador, whether I had Powers enabling me
to make a Treaty with Sweden of Commerce &c. He told
me the King his Master was very desirous of it, and had
charg’d him to tell me, that it would be particularly
pleasing to him, to make the Treaty with me, un homme
si, &c and desir’d it might be taken notice of
in favour of Sweden that it was the first Power not at
War with England that had sought our Alliance.