Your letters of August 24 and December 10, my dear and respectable colleague, gave me great pleasure. Your health resists the two ailments that attack it, and after having completed your Presidency, you will be able to taste the rest of the wise in the solitude of the country, and to peacefully enjoy the sweet satisfaction of having enlightened your fellow men and to have taught them to obtain and preserve their liberty. I hope that you will soon complete the interesting Memoirs that you promised to M. le Veillard, and which will be the source of interesting recollections for your friends, bringing you close to them despite your distance.

We will soon be needing a head like yours here, to reconcile the diverse opinions and interests which divide us, and to teach us that it is in the general interest that the interests of individuals find their true satisfaction.

I don't have the time to write much to you today because it is tomorrow that M. Morris has a chance to send you this; I will profit from my next available possibility to have a longer conversation with you.

Thank you for the excellent acquaintance which you have given me in M. Morris; I will be able to enjoy it only a little, being obliged to leave for the convocation of the Estates General, whose election has called me to a distant Province. Our family is well, and sends you countless best regards, my mother most of all. Don't forget to mention me to your grandsons, and accept, my dear and respectable colleague, the homage of my tender attachment