Mr Faber delivered me yesterday your Letter of the 13th of April with the different [two words illegible] you was so Obliging to purchase for me at Paris. Mr Jay having drawn for the full Amt of our Salaries to the 29th of March I inclose you 2 bills to Doctr Franklin, which I had indorsed to Mr Sweighauser who returned them to me, as before he received them, He had Drawn upon me for the Ballance due him for articles purchased for Mr Lewis by my Directions—I have bills owed for [illegible] hundred Livres—I beg you to excuse the Trouble I have given you on this Occasion & to imploy me in a similar or any other way that I can be of the Slightest service to you [here] or elsewhere—As I mean in future to provide myself in France with many articles that I may have occasion for & which I can get forty pr. Ct. cheaper than here, I must intreat you to mention to your Grandfather my desire of Drawing on him in future for my Salary as it becomes due to save me from the necessity of repurchasing bills here (often at a Loss) to remit to France for payments that I may be Obliged to make there—We have no Later news from America, than what you have seen in the Public prints or received yourselves from [illegible]—We hear nothing of the Squadrons from England & Spain—A Vessel has arrived lately from the Havannah at Cadiz, but as yet the news brought by it have [illegible] transpired. It is said the Spaniards took possession of the harbor of Pensacola without opposition & were beseiging the place, it is also reported that the English had gone to it, [a cutter] from SAmerica with 8 sail of the Line & Some Troops & that Mr Solano had sailed with 11 Sail of the Line to intercept them. Mr Monteil with the French Ships returning to St. Domingo—The Spaniards are preparing for an Expedition from Cadiz in which 6 or 8 thousand men are to be employed—The Abbe Alvarze & Mr Faber appear very much your humble Serts, & I have had the pleasure of hearing the former speak in numerous [illegible] here with much warmth of your Grandfather—if you now & then pay your Court to the Princess of Massoran, I hope you will say some civil things for me & keep me in her good graces. If also the Marquise de la Fayette ever does me the honor to recollect me, you will have the goodness to make her the proper Compliments for me. I trust in their Efficacy because I am assured few can make them with a better grace. I do not write to the Doctor on this occasion; I am told he has lately written one or two little peices you will do me a singular favor by sending them to me, by the first Courier to the Count de Montmorin & under Cover to Him.

I am with real regard Your obliged & Humble Sevt.