Mr. barcley, our Consul general, waits upon your Excellency with a Complaint of a gross Affront and Injury offer’d to the Congress of the United States at l’Orient, by some English Merchants residing at Bourdeaux, to which I beg your Excellency’s Attention, and that you would order such Measures to be taken for Redress, as the Nature of the Case will appear to require. I am, with great Respect Sir, Your Excellency’s