You will much oblige me by presenting my most respectful Compliments to your Grandfather & beging the Favor of him to procure me a passport from the Count de Vergennes to go into the South of this Kingdom as far as Marseilles from which place ’tis probable I shall embark for Italy—I am told I shall meet with some difficulty in quiting the Kingdom from one of those remote Ports unless I have a passpart from the Count de Vergennes.

As the Winter Season is advancing fast I wish to get away as soon as I possibly can, I shou’d have taken the Liberty of asking a Passport ere this but did not know it was necessary ’till lately. I am with much esteem Dr Sir Yr Very Humb Sert