As I am informed that next Wednesday is appointed for the Signature of the definitive Treaties of Peace, I suppose it will be throught proper to think of some Conveyance of the Ratification of the Provisional Treaty, and of the Original of our definitive Treaty, as soon as it shall be signed, to Congress. By what Vessel it will be proper to send it deserves to be considered as soon as possible as it is of importance to the Publick that the News of it should reach Philadelphia without loss of time.

I presume too, it will be thought proper to send the Treaties, and Dispatches, which may accompany them, by some careful hand, and that Choice will fall naturally among the younger Gentlemen who have been employed abroad in the Service of the Publick in the Way of Negotiation. On this Supposition, I beg leave to propose to your Consideration, Mr. John Thaxter, who had been for sometime in the Service of Congress at Philadelphia, before he came to Europe, who embarked with me at Boston about four years ago, and has accompanied me constantly from that time to this in a dangerous Voyage and many fatiguing Journies, and has ever been in the highest degree industrious and faithful in the public Service. With the greatest Respect I have the honor