The opportunities to assure you of my invariable sentiments for you, Monsieur and dear colleague, are always infinitely precious to me. Therefore I am gladly profiting from the departure of M. le Chevalier de Preudhomme de Borre, to have the honor of writing to you and to tell you how happy I was to learn that in the midst of all the immense weight of affairs in America, your heath is holding up as well as always. M. le Chevalier de Borre will give you this letter; he is a gentleman of quality from Liege, who has served for 36 years in our troops, and who has been on fourteen war campaigns. For twenty years he has been a lieutenant colonel in the infantry, and he is about to be made brigadier; moreover he has been commissioned a cavalry captain for 32 years. All throughout the last war, he had two battalions under his command. M. le Comte d'Herouville, who was the right hand of the maréchal de Saxe, and one of our best and most distinguished lieutenant generals, spoke to me of M. le Chevalier de Borre as an excellent military man who particularly understands the composition and formation of regiments. I was happy to inform you of his talents so that your generals might employ him appropriately. It is essential that you have officers that understand how to discipline troops, how to have them maneuver, and how to lead them well into battle. According to M. d'Herouville you will find all this in M. le Chevalier de Borre. I have the honor of recommending him, by the way, as a gallant man, who, after hearing my account of you, will be enchanted to meet you. Adieu, Monsieur and dear colleague, please reserve some affection for a man of the other world who will be attached to you by the most sincere sentiments to his last breath.