Benjamin Franklin Papers - Jonathan Williams, Jr. to William Temple Franklin (unpublished)

As I expected the Count was not visible, so I left the Pacquet and must depend on your Endeavours, for I plainly see the difference between being supposed in affluence & in want, I imagine I appear to have a hungary Soliciting Face, which can never serve me at Court. I perhaps feel more than is real, but yet I cannot help feeling, and I realy think I shall succeed better by not showing myself, than to add my personal importunities ’till Tuesday, when I hope to see you with the News of my success, pray request the Return of my Papers, & if any difficulties should arise for want of understanding then propose that one of the Clerks should examine them with me.

Adieu my dear Friend a mardi. Je suis tout a vous

To put it out of doubt that I mean to protect myself only against the few who have not consented, propose to the Count to insert in the Arrêt de Surseance “que le present Arrêt ne servira pas de proteger le dit Sieur & a contre aucune dette contracté depuis le premier Septembre 1783” All my new Engagements are since that period & this at once serves the necessity of any legal Proofs or if he likes better let a Copy of the State I have given in be annexed to the Arret de Surseance & let all the firms therein mentioned be excepted.